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The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where ones one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life. Norman Cousins		Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
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About Willa Sibert Cather

	Willa Sibert Cather
	(1873-1947) American journalist & novelist, 1923 Pulitzer Prize,.

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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.

The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.

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