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Ellen Glasgow Inspirational Quotes (126)

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Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.
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Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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Cruelty is the only sin.
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to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
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But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
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Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
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irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
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O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
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My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
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To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
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