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Willa Cather Quotes about Memories

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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Willa Cather
Memories, Reality, Moments
Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.625, Simon and Schuster

The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions... I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.

Willa Cather
Memories, Reality, Years
"My Antonia". Book by Willa Cather, 1918.

He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into the kitchen and explained the almost holy traditions that governed this complicated cookery. Her excitement and seriousness as she beat and stirred were very pretty, Claude thought. She told off on her fingers the many ingredients, but he believed there were things she did not name: the fragrance of old friendships, the glow of early memories, belief in wonder-working rhymes and songs.

Willa Cather
Christmas, Song, Memories
Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.687, Simon and Schuster

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