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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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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
Dry
Tongue
Havens
Haven
Fire
Opinion
Words
Much

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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.
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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.
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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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It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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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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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.
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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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