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I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

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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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The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
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Most women want their youth back again but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
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Happiness is a hardy annual.
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Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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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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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.
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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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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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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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No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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