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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.
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
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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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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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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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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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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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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
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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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Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
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First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know) next I was a realist now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
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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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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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