Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

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A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

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Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cather in My Antonia
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Willa Cather in O Pioneers! (1913)
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

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It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

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