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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
Novelist
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Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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Birds
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Bird
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Dignity is an anachronism.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
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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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Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
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Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
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I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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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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I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.
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the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
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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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A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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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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