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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

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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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Outstripped
Inventive
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Monsters
Destructive
Philosophy

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though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
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I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
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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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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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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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I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
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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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