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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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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Soon
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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.
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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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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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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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... 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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The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
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I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.
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I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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