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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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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
Irony
Critical
Safest
Vision
Ingredient
Antidote
Sentimental
Indispensable
Ingredients
Decay

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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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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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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.
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O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
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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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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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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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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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