Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
Willa CatherYour 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.
Willa CatherEvery artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
Willa CatherOne afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.
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