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It is only in the heart that anything really happens.

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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
Really
Happens
Anything
Heart

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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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He who demands little gets it.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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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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Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
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I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.
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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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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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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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for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
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though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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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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The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
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. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
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