Willa Cather Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947
Birthday: December 7
Death: April 24
It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its ineffaceable failures closes about us like the walls of that old torture chamber of the Inquisition.
source: Willa Cather (2016). “The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works”, p.134, Wildside Press LLC
topic: Wall, Failure, Cutting, Inquisition, Every Avenue
