Quote by Willa Cather
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before

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

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It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of. – Willa Cather

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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. – Willa Cather

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A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that. – Kathleen Turner

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I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, theres always the town gossip – Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household? So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut. – Garrett Hedlund

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High expectations werent nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then – children werent fawned over from an early age as gifted and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself. – James Wolcott

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It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are. – Quoted by Raymond A. Michel in The Leaf

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The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don’t let it use you. – Terri Guillemets [Wow! Years after writing this, I stumbled onto this from Osho:

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Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, Oh yes, Im hosting my own show. – Andy Cohen

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The borders of my bodyhood coincide with those of my openness to the world. They are in fact at any given time identical, though they are always changing with the fluid expansion and contraction of my relationships to the world. – Medard Boss

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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. – Albert Camus

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