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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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It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
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The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
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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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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
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... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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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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Cruelty is the only sin.
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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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I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
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I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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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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for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
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