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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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So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
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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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... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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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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I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
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... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
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. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.
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