Quotation by Willa Cather

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
Willa Cather (1873–1947), U.S. novelist. Kitty Ayrshire, in "A Gold Slipper," Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920).

Spoken by the opera singer to the conservative businessman Marshall McKann, at the end of their heated debate over art and values.
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