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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
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Weather
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Unsafe
General
Maxim
Theory
Maxims
Fiction
Report
Literature
Conduct
Upon
Reports
Nothing
Rely

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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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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
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Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.
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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 life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.
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The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
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Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of 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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The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
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But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
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