"Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness."
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"Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark."
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"I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The light and air abot me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would only be sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass."
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"Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created."
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"Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world."
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"When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather"
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"If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on."
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"They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it."
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"Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot."
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"The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself."
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"People always think the bread of another country is better than their own."
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"On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice."
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"The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand."
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"From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas."
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"I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all."
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"The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death."
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"Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in."
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"All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'."
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"A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."
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"Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James."
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