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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

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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
Twice
Forced
Teach
Learn
Self

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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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I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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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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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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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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... 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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irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
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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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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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