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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

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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
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Sarcastic
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Majority

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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
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So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
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The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
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She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
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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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... 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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Happiness is a hardy annual.
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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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the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
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for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
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O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
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No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
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