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Quotation by Willa Cather
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ed. William M. Curtin, University of Nebraska Press (1970)"A Chance Meeting" Knopf (1936)Alexandra Bergson, in O Pioneers! (1913)Andor Harsanyi, in The Song of the Lark (1915)Antonia, in My Antonia (1918; rev. 1926)Related Subjects
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Willa Cather (1873–1947), U.S. author. One of Ours, bk. 2, ch. 6 (1922).
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