“Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.”

— Willa Cather , book The Song of the Lark

Part VI, Ch. 11
The Song of the Lark (1915)

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American writer and novelist 1873–1947

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