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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
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Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
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Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.
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I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
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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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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 hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.
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What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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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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