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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
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
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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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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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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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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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Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
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