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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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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
Thought
Ideas
Escapes
Seize
Flying
Touch
Modern
Idea
Reality

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idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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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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Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.
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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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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
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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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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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