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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.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
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. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.
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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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Happiness is a hardy annual.
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Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.
Ellen Glasgow
After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
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A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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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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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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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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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
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To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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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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