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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
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
World
Literary
Loneliness
Lonely
Conscience
Writer
Modern

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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
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. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.
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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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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 in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.
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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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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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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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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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I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
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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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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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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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