There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark

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Life lessons Learning Adversity

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Author

Willa Cather

Source

The Song of the Lark

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United States

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Original Citation

Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915, pt. 4, ch. 8.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Vintage, 1999, pt. 4, ch. 8.

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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.

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Cather, Willa. The Professor's House. Alfred A. Knopf, 1925, bk. 1, ch. 8.

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Life does not consist mainly—or even largely—of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

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Mark Twain's Autobiography

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Topic
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Language
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Time
1910 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Autobiography. Vol. 1, Harper & Brothers, 1924.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "New York, January 10, 1906." Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael Barry Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick, and Robert Hirst. Vol. 1, University of California Press, 2010.

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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

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Charles Bukowski
Language
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Time
1994 1990s 20th century
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Bukowski, Charles. How Is Your Heart. c. 1994.

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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Desire Hope

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James Joyce
Source
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." The Egoist, 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by Seamus Deane. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 5.