That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Willa Sibert Cather
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
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Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
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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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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them
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He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves
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Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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