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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
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Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
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The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
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Theories have nothing to do with life.
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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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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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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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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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