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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

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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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Seize
Flying
Touch
Reality
Thought
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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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Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.
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Cruelty is the only sin.
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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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Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.
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Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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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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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.
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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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I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
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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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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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there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.
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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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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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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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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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