Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human 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.
Willa Cather · O Pioneers!
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“Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and…”
- Author
- Willa Cather
- Work
- O Pioneers!
- Year
- 1913
- Length
- 45 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #24
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