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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
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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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Happiness is a hardy annual.
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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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It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
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There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.
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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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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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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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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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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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O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
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The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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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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I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
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Cruelty is the only sin.
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It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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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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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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