Willa Cather Quotes about Hate

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I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.

I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.

Willa Cather

Hate, Creative, Hatred

The Song of the Lark pt. 1 (1915)

If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.

Willa Cather

Giving Up, Hate, Fire

Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.1481, eBookIt.com