..." "And now the old story has begun to write itself over there," said Carl softly. "Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they...as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years."...

...write * itself over there," said Carl softly. "Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human V stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years."...

...Lindgren, in 0 Pioneers.', puts the matter in a somewhat different way. "Isn't it queer," he muses: "there are only two or three human stories, and they...fiercely as if they had never happened before..." (0, 119). FOOTNOTES Hugo McPherson, "The Garden and the Cage," Canadian Literature, No. 1, 1959. Reprinted...

...seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood." Cather wrote: "There are only two or three human stories, and they...as fiercely as if they had never happened before." The story of My Antonia is not in the form of a conventional novel, but more a series of dramatic or...

...most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. Mark Twain Brevity is the sou! of wit. Shakespeare There are only two or three human stories, and they...as if they had never happened before. Willa Gather Why would any man write a second book about lies and liars? Thoughts of exonerating the pioneer from...

...she did. Robin Tyler for her encouragement and help to the Memphis equivalent of Adam's house cat! There are only two or three human stories. And they...as if they had never happened before. -Willa Gather (1873-1947) American Author Jeanette Harrison decided somewhere around age six that she was not destined...

...book in a passage that now fatalistically hints at the deadliness of romance and the romance of death, "and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before" (119). The old stories of love and death may be written — as Alexandra insists at the end of 0 Pioneers!...

...childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days." Willa Gather claimed, "There are only two or three human stories, and they...as fiercely as if they had never happened before." Someone has made up a list of these ten basic plots that most short stories embody: 1. The sympathetic...

...all men." This is reminiscent of Willa Gather's remark: "There are only two or three human stoires, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before." This fact of an underlying commonality to our diverse personal stories leads to an appreciation of...

...of atoms. — Muriel Rukeyser In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. — Nora Ephron There are only two or three human stories, and they...fiercely as if they had never happened before. — Willa Cather Good habits are worth being fanatical about. — John Irving Setting Free The Bears Courage...