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Most publishers, like most wri...

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

Willa Cather 284 quotes

The emptiness was intense, lik...

The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

Willa Cather 284 quotes

Loyal? As loyal as anyone who ...

Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.

Willa Cather 284 quotes

Personal hatred and family aff...

Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible; they often flourish and grow strong together.

Willa Cather 284 quotes

One may have staunch friends i...

One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.

Willa Cather 284 quotes

On the farm the weather was th...

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.

Willa Cather 284 quotes

Even the wicked get worse than...

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

Willa Cather 284 quotes

This land was an enigma. It wa...

This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.

Willa Cather 284 quotes

The trees and shrubbery seemed...

The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.

Willa Cather 284 quotes

What if - what if Life itself ...

What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?

Willa Cather 284 quotes

Youth, art, love, dreams, true...

Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

Willa Cather 284 quotes

[Some] people really expect th...

[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield infinite variety, pleasure, and distraction, and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists.

Willa Cather 284 quotes

Money is a protection, a cloak...

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

Willa Cather 284 quotes

The summer moon hung full in t...

The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.

Willa Cather 284 quotes

New things are always ugly....

New things are always ugly.

Willa Cather 284 quotes

William Tavener never heeded o...

William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.

Willa Cather 284 quotes

A pioneer should have imaginat...

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

Willa Cather 284 quotes

Setting ... is accident. Eithe...

Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

Willa Cather 284 quotes

Religion is different from eve...

Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

Willa Cather 284 quotes

Merely having seen the season ...

Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.

Willa Cather 284 quotes

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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