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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
Ideas
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Seize
Flying
Touch
Reality
Thought

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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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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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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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To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
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She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
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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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Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
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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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1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.
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Happiness is a hardy annual.
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Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
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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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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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I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.
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A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.
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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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