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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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Trouble
Lying
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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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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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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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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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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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He who demands little gets it.
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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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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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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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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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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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. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
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There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
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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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But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
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