Quotation by Willa Cather

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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 to one again.

Willa Cather

Willa Cather (1873–1947), U.S. novelist. Jim Burden, in My Antonia, book V, ch. 1 (1918; rev. 1926).

The narrator explains why he feared seeing Antonia again after twenty years.

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