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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
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
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it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
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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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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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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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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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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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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.
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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
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