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Willa Cather

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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

Willa Cather

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Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

Willa Cather

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Willa Cather

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One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world’s end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.

Willa Cather

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

Willa Cather

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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

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