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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
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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Live
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Theories have nothing to do with life.
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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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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She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
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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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Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
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What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.
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Dignity is an anachronism.
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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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. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
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Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
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... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.
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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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It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
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But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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