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irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
Ellen Glasgow
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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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My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.
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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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That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
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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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Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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Cruelty is the only sin.
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To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
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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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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
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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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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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