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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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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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though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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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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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
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Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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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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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
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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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idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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