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for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

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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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Illuminated
Defined
Fiction
Purpose
Experience

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But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
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After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
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There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
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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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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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Cruelty is the only sin.
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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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Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.
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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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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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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
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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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So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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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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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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