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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
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Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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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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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.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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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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Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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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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O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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Most women want their youth back again but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
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Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.
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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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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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