Quote by Willa Cather
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeatin

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. – Willa Cather

Other quotes by Willa Cather

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. – Willa Cather

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Sunshine
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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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Curmudgeonesque
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What was any art but a mold 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

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Art
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. – Rudyard Kipling

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The universe is made of stories, not atoms. – Muriel Rukeyser

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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. – Italo Calvino

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Storytelling

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best – and therefore never scrutinize or question. – Stephen Jay Gould

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Storytelling

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