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"It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term."
"Her personal life, her own realization of herself, was almost a subconscious existence; like an underground river that came to the surface only here and there, at intervals months apart, and then sank again to flow on under her own fields."
O' Pioneers!
"The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not."
O' Pioneers!
"...they were the kind of letters a young man writes to a woman when he wishes himself and his life to seem interesting to her, when he wishes to enlist her imagination in his behalf."
O' Pioneers!
"People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find."
O' Pioneers!
"From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains from the other lay still in the earth and rotted; and nobody knew why."
O' Pioneers!
"How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!"
O' Pioneers!
"Carl sat musing until the sun leaped above the prairie, and in the grass about him all the small creatures of day began to tune their tiny instruments."
O' Pioneers!
" . . . there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years."
O' Pioneers!
"Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best."
O' Pioneers!
"Sympathy always cleared his mind, and ridicule was poison to him."
O' Pioneers!
"Alexandra drew her shawl closer about her and stood leaning against the frame of the mill, looking at the stars which glittered so keenly through the frosty autumn air. She always loved to watch them, to think of their vastness and distance...
and of their ordered march. It fortified her to reflect upon the great operations of nature, and when she thought of the law that lay behind them, she felt a sense of personal security."
O' Pioneers!
"For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning."
O' Pioneers!
"...people always think the bread of another country is better than their own."
O' Pioneers!
"Her body was in an attitude of perfect repose, such as it was apt to take when she was thinking earnestly. Her mind was slow, truthful, steadfast. She had not the least spark of cleverness."
O' Pioneers!
"...when she met his steady, powerful eyes, it was impossible not to feel the sweetness of the dream he was dreaming; it reached her before she could shut it out, and hid itself in her heart."
O' Pioneers!
"He felt there was a sovereign virtue in mere bodily toil, and he rather liked doing things in the hardest way."
O'Pioneers!
"There was about Alexandra something of the impervious calm of the fatalist, always disconcerting to very young people, who cannot feel that the heart lives at all unless it is still at the mercy of storms...
unless its strings can scream to the touch of pain."
O' Pioneers!
"...he was as indolent of mind as he was unsparing of his body."
O' Pioneers!
"The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky."
O' Pioneers!
"When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open."
O' Pioneers!
"There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon."
O' Pioneers!
"As he rode past the graveyard he looked at the brown hole in the earth where Amedee was to lie, and felt no horror. That, too, was beautiful, that simple doorway into forgetfulness.
The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death."
O' Pioneers!
"...he wandered about the fields all night, till morning put out the fireflies and the stars."
O' Pioneers!
"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything;...
I begin just where I left off."
O'Pioneers!
"...because he felt that men were too weak to make any mark here, that the land wanted to be let alone, to preserve its own fierce strength, its peculiar, savage kind of beauty, its uninterrupted mournfulness."
O' Pioneers
"You think [that life in a small town is good] because you live in the city. Family life in a little town is pretty deadly. It's being planted in the earth, like one of your carrots here. I'd rather be pulled up and thrown away."
Lucy Gayhart
"That is happiness, to be dissolved into something complete and great."
My Antonia
"How much jealousy and envy and unhappiness some of them [the frail houses] managed to contain! The life that went on in them seemed to me made up of evasions and negations..."
My Antonia
"Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar."
The Song of the Lark
"Her secret? It is every artist's secret...passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly safe. Like heroism, it is inimitable to cheap materials."
My Mortal Enemy
"Every artist makes himself born...Your mother did not bring anything into the world to play piano. That you must bring into the world yourself."
My Mortal Enemy
Permalink "Every artist makes himself born...Your mother did not bring anything into the world to play piano. That you must bring into the world yourself."
My Mortal Enemy
"There is only one big thing - desire."
My Mortal Enemy
"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman."
O Pioneers!
"Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer."
"The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature."
"Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world."
"If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago."
"Nothing mattered...but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them."
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