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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
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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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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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
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I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
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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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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
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So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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