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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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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
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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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Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
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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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What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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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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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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Happiness is a hardy annual.
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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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That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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