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The sayings of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language

The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech - it is a gift from heart to heart.

Willa Cather
Notebook, Attitude, Heart
Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

Willa Cather
Art, Children, Attitude
Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.294, Courier Corporation

A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.

Willa Cather
Attitude, Men, Long
Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.77, U of Nebraska Press

There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical processes, the methods of operating manufactories and trades, and in minutely and unsparingly describing physical sensations. But is not realism, more than it is anything else, an attitude of mind on the part of the writer toward his material, a vague indication of the sympathy and candour with which he accepts, rather than chooses, his theme?

Willa Cather
Attitude, Numbers, Mind
Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.45, U of Nebraska Press

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