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

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

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Age
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. – Willa Cather

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Family
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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. – Jean De La Bruyere

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Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form. – Jean Luc Godard

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There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries…. – Umberto Eco

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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder. – Eric Hoffer

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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel. – Alexander Pope

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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. – Paul McCartney

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I think life is full of challenges and problems. I dont believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. Its not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it. – Nigel Mansell

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