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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
Ideas

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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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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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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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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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Youth is always an enemy to the old.
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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
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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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... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
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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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It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
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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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No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
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O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
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