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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
Illuminated
Defined
Fiction
Purpose
Experience
Art

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Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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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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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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Dignity is an anachronism.
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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
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It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.
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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.
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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
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