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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

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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
Literary
Loneliness
Lonely
Conscience
Writer
Modern
World

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to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
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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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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.
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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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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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Cruelty is the only sin.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
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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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What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
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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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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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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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My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.
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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
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it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
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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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