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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.

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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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Weather
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General
Maxim
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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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... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.
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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.
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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 would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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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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Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
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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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Happiness is a hardy annual.
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