What did Willa Cather mean by: It is easy to pity when once one’s vanity has been tickled. Willa Cather Author Copy
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Willa Cather, Knowledge, Language, Perception, 0 Willa Cather Author
Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Willa Cather, Empathy, Gender, Suffering, 0 Willa Cather Author
+ Art, it seems to me, should simplify. Author, June 20, 2023January 2, 2025, Willa Cather, Aesthetics, Creativity, Simplicity, 0 Willa Cather Author
More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Willa Cather, Acknowledgment, Solidarity, Sorrow, 0 Willa Cather Author
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Willa Cather, Communication, Generation gap, Perspective, 0 Willa Cather Author
+ Today I stood taller from walking among the trees. Author, October 13, 2023January 2, 2025, Willa Cather, Growth, Nature, Reflection, 0 Willa Cather Author
+ The land belongs to the future. Author, August 26, 2023January 2, 2025, Willa Cather, Future, Land, Ownership, 0 Willa Cather Author
People always think the bread of another country is better than their own. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Willa Cather, Comparison, Culture, Perception, 0 Willa Cather Author
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity. Read explanation Jean Rostand Biologist · France
