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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
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Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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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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Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
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The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.
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Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
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I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
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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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