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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
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Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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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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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
Ellen Glasgow
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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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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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'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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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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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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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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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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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
Ellen Glasgow
I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.
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