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I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

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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
Born
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Things
Vital
Novelists
Suppose
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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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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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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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Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
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He who demands little gets it.
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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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