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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
Fiction
Purpose
Experience
Art
Illuminated
Defined

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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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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
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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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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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So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
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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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... 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 attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
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a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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Cruelty is the only sin.
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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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idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.
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But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
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I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
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