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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
Tongue
Havens
Haven
Fire
Opinion
Words
Much
Dry

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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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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
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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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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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Youth is always an enemy to the old.
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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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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.
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Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
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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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irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
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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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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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He who demands little gets it.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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