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Willa Cather Quotes about Summer

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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Willa Cather
Inspirational, Summer, Nature
Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.

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Summer, Moon, Sky
Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

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Summer, Dream, Art
Willa Cather (1986). “Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929”, p.52, U of Nebraska Press

This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.

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Summer, Lying, Reality
Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.463, eBookIt.com

One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.

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Summer, Book, Garden
Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.3, Vintage

Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.

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Girl, Summer, Country
Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.583, Simon and Schuster

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