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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.
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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
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1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
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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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Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
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The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
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A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
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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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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
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A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.
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