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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

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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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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
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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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... 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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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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Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
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... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.
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The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
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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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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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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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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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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
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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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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
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I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
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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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But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
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