Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

Willa Cather

My Antonia

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Topic

Shared history

Author

Willa Cather

Source

My Antonia

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Closing lines

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Cather, Willa. My Antonia. Houghton Mifflin, 1918, bk. 5, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 5, ch. 3.

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

Willa Cather

The Professor's House

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Topic
Limits of knowledge Inscrutability Connecting with others Intimacy

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Willa Cather
Source
The Professor's House
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1925 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

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

Another quote from the 1910s

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ––
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

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Topic
Taking a different path Following the crowd

Author

Robert Frost
Source
The Road Not Taken
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1916 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Road Not Taken." Mountain Interval. Henry Holt, 1916, st. 4, I. 3.

Current Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Road Not Taken." Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays, edited by Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson. Library of America, 1995, st. 4, I. 3.

Another quote from 1918

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, while there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Eugene Debs

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Topic
Underdogs Outsiders and outcasts

Author

Eugene Debs
Medium
Courtroom speech Speech
Language
English
Time
1918 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Federal Court. US v. Eugene V. Debs. RG 21, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Criminal Case Files, 1912–1977, Criminal Case #4057. 9. NYT, 18 Sept. 1918.