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Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

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
Nothing
Rely
Weather
Except
Unsafe
General
Maxim
Theory
Maxims
Fiction
Report
Literature
Conduct
Upon
Reports

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Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
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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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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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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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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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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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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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Dignity is an anachronism.
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In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.
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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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He who demands little gets it.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
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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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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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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
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