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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.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
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Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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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 share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.
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There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
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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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Most women want their youth back again but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
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. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.
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A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.
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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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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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the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
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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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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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Theories have nothing to do with life.
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