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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
Almost
Literature

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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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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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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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Theories have nothing to do with life.
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idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.
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To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
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irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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Dignity is an anachronism.
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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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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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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
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