Willa Cather

And I advise ye to think well, he told her It's better to be a stray dog in this world than a man without money. I've tried it both ways, and I know. A poor man stinks, and God hates him. ↗

— Willa Cather

#money

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. ↗

— Willa Cather

#even #hard #hard place #incessantly #leave

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke. ↗

— Willa Cather

#ghastly #god #hands #i #i think

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. ↗

— Willa Cather

#dissolved #great #happiness #into #something

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. ↗

— Willa Cather

#living #might #old #speak #try

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. ↗

— Willa Cather

#give #new #new word #people #think

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. ↗

— Willa Cather

#hand #human #intimate #irregular #made

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. ↗

— Willa Cather

#art #away #element #elusive #hurrying

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ↗

— Willa Cather

#hangs #lies #long #old #shabby

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens. ↗

— Willa Cather

#captivity #fox #happens #intelligence #like