Quotes from the World for April 22nd

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
Willa Cather (1873–1947), U.S. novelist. Carl Linstrum, in O Pioneers! Part II, ch. IV (1913).