Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer. - Willa Cather

THERE was a curious social situation in Black Hawk. All the young men felt the attraction of the fine, well-set-up country girls who had come to town to earn a living, and, in nearly every case, to help the father struggle out of debt, or to make it possible for the younger children of the family to go to school.

It's awfully easy to rush into a profession you don't really like, and awfully hard to get out of it.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.