Willa Cather on Human Stories

“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.”

Willa Cather, O Pioneers! Pt. 2 ch. 4 (1913)

Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

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