Literary Significance and Criticism
In a 1921 interview for Bookman, Willa Cather said, "I decided not to 'write' at all, - simply to give myself up to the pleasure of recapturing in memory people and places I'd forgotten."
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“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
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