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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to th

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. – Willa Cather

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

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Seasons
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All the intelligence and talent in the world cant make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It cant be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens. – Willa Cather

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Intelligence
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He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. – Willa Cather

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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever. – William Blake

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What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. – Anthony Crosland

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[A]t present my chief work is on the manuscripts of the library—a blessed lot, as nothing could be more interesting, as bringing me into close touch with the ancients, to whom I now belong. – James L. Whitney, “Reminiscences of an Old Librarian,” November 1909 #oldsoul

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Its all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. – George Bernard Shaw

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Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition. – Stanislav Grof

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