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Willa Cather
December 7, 1875 to April 24, 1947
Born in Back Creek Valley, Virginia & Died in New York City
Best known as the author of My Antonia and O Pioneers. I've read all of her major books, and while I admired her writing, I've never felt an urge to reread any of them.
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"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
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Bibliography
Novels
Alexander's Bridge - 1912
O Pioneers! - 1913
The Song of the Lark - 1915
My Antonia - 1918
One of Ours - 1922
A Lost Lady - 1923
The Professor's House - 1925
My Mortal Enemy - 1926
Death Comes For the Archbishop - 1927
Shadows on the Rock - 1931
Lucy Gayheart - 1935
Sapphira and the Slave Girl - 1940
Short Story Collections
The Troll Garden - 1905
Youth and Bright Medusa - 1920
Obscure Destinies - 1932
Other Books
April Twilights - 1903 (Poems)
Not Under Forty - 1936 (Essays)
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Author Profiles
- Westlake, Donald - Bibliography
- Crane, Hart
- Pyle, Ernie
- Whitman, Walt
- Ferber, Edna
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Barnes, Linda
- Salinger, J. D.
- Parker, Robert B.
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Miller, Henry
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
- King, Stephen
- London, Jack
- Abbey, Edward
- Asimov, Isaac
- Ballard, J. G.
- Author Index
- Morley, Christopher
- Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Ambrose, Stephen
- Hunter, Evan
- Carr, John Dickson
- Adams, Brooks
- Adams, Henry
- Adams, Richard
- Agee, James
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Anthony, Piers
- Austen, Jane
Great Quotations
- Jack London on the advantages of not being a cabbage
Author's Name Jack London Type of Quote Animals
Change"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better." - Edith Wharton on Secrets and Age
Author's Name Edith Wharton He was growing old, and beginning to need rest and an imperturbed spirit. He did not want the secrets of other lives thrust upon him. - Edith Wharton on Weddings
Author's Name Edith Wharton She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth. Nice thing for a woman to say to her husband! - James Tiptree, Jr., (Alice B. Sheldon)
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.
- Truman Capote
Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves.
- Jack London
"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better."
- Donald Westlake
"A gun is so clean, so impersonal. It separates you, just a bit, from the event."
- John Gregory Dunne
"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
- G.K. Chesterton
"If we boast of our best, we must repent of our worst. Otherwise patriotism will be a very poor thing indeed."
- Jorge Luis Borges
"It is like two bald men fighting over a comb."
Jorge Luis Borges on the Falklands war.
- Stephen King
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