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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
Seize
Flying
Touch
Reality
Thought
Ideas
Escapes

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Happiness is a hardy annual.
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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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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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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
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Youth is always an enemy to the old.
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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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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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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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... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.
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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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