| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 11092 |
| QUOTATION: | One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world’s end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Willa Cather (1876–1947), U.S. novelist. Willa Cather in Europe, ch. 13 (1956).
Written on September 10, 1902. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Cather Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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