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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
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Happens
Anything
Heart

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though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
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there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.
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a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
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It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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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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. . . 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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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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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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No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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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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But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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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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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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