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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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Almost
Literature
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Life

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I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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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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1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.
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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
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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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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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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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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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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 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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I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
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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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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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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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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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