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• Art should simplify. That is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic proce
  finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole....
• Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
  -- Willa Cather (1873-1947) U.S. noveli...
• A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.
  -- Willa Cather (1873-1947) U.S. noveli...
• I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate. -- Willa Cather (1873-1947) U.S. noveli
• That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great. -- Willa Cathe
• What is the vector which is orthogonal to itself?
• They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man.
  These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams -- and still calls for more....
• The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman. Willa Cathe
• Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment- the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
  -- Jorge Luis Borge...