"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before." --Willa Cather
This entry is dedicated to oceanmrc, who is afraid there are no stories left to tell.
May she tell her stories fiercely.
WILLA SIBERT CATHER was born December 7, 1873, near Winchester, Virginia. When she was nine years old, her family moved to the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska, later the setting for a number of her novels. She attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After college she spent the next few years doing newspaper work and teaching high school in Pittsburgh. She moved to New York City and worked for six years on the editorial staff of McClure's Magazine. Cather won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours. She died on April 24, 1947.
4 comments:
What a great quote! They may be the same old stories, but oh, the power of words to change them!
lovely as always to be here. judi
Well, wow, amazing, thank you; I've never had anything dedicated to me before. Maybe I should get depressed more often.
I also like the quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald - We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives—experiences so great and moving that it doesn’t seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.
The important thing, I think, is that these stories are ones about which we feel passionately. They are always new in that we are telling them our way. There are really only a certain amount of vegetables in the world, but we keep writing new cookbooks and new ways to serve 'em up.
Beth
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