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

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Source : Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.749, Simon and Schuster

Willa Cather

#Communication Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Trying Quotes

“If one has not heard Wagner at Bayreuth, one has heard nothing! Take lots of handkerchiefs because you will cry a great deal! Also take a sedative because you will be exalted to the point of delirium!”
“He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.”
“Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took 700 years to advance from the Magna Carta onward. The terrorists have already won the political and ideological war with one terrorist act. It is mindboggling that we are that weak as a society.”
“The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.”
“The Secret of living is giving”
“As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.”
“A lot of readers ask me, "Do you ever get emotional while writing the book?" or "Did you cry when you killed this character?" And the truth is, no, I didn't. That's not really the way I approach it. I don't get emotional while writing, but then there are plenty of other authors who do.”
“Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.”

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