Quotation by Willa Cather

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There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

Willa Cather

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

The narrator recalls his childhood impression of driving into Nebraska for the first time.

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