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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
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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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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though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
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But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
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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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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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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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