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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

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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
Politics
Never
Men
Ems
Politician
Clean
Saws
Went
Came

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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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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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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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Happiness is a hardy annual.
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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
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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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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
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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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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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Dignity is an anachronism.
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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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I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
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A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.
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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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In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.
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It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
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