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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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Literary
Loneliness
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Conscience
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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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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
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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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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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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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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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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
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I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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