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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

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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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you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.
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