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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
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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Theories have nothing to do with life.
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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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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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. . . 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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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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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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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.
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Most women want their youth back again but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
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I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
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Cruelty is the only sin.
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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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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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Happiness is a hardy annual.
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irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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