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Willa Cather

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Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Cather grew up in Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, then at the age of 33 she moved to New York, where she lived for the rest of her life.


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Quote Left Where there is great love, there are always wishes. Quote Right
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Quote Left No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Quote Right
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Quote Left Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. Quote Right
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Quote Left That air would disappear from the whole earth in time, perhaps; but long after his day. He did not know just when it had become so necessary t... Quote Right
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Quote Left Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you wha... Quote Right
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