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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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... 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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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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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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1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.
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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
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Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
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