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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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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
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Life
Popular
Honest
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Literature

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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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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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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
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What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
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