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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
Happens
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Heart
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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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Cruelty is the only sin.
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Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.
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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.
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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
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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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. . . 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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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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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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The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
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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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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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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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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
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