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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
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Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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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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a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
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1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.
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The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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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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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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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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irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
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In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.
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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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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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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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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.
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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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