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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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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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Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
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It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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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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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
Ellen Glasgow
There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
Ellen Glasgow
O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
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It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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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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To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
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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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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.
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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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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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you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
Ellen Glasgow
