#hi

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, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. ↗

— Willa Cather

#another man #arrogance #commonplace #conceit #dark

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

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#creating #feel #feels #i #like

From THE VIRGIN HUNTRESS coming June 29, 2012: "I used to watch the stallions leaping the mares." "You what!" Hew almost choked. "Well, how else is a girl with no mother supposed to get any education? Although I doubt Mama would have told me very much. So there's really no reason to be timid, Hew. I already know all about the mating process. And to the best of my knowledge, the stallions never 'ignored it until it went away. ↗

— Victoria Vane

#education

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. ↗

— Willa Cather

#build #his #person #security #upon

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. ↗

— Willa Cather

#absence #bewildering #country #depressing #disheartening

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#act #becomes #endless #forgiveness #habit

A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high. ↗

— George Catlin

#being #crow #dress #elegant #feet

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#big #chief #destination #difference #early

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom. ↗

— Michael Ironside

#freedom #give #give me #i #make