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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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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
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Farmer
Farming
Corn
Farmers
Fool
Born
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Flour

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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
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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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... 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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for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
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The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
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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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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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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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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
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So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
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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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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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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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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.
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