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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.

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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
Running
Valley
Flame
Valleys
Thin
Flames
Green
Spring

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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
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a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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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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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
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First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know) next I was a realist now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
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Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
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Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
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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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Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
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