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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

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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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Almighty
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Women
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. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
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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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to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
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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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But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
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Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
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The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.
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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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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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To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
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A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.
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for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
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There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.
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The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
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I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.
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In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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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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