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there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

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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
Life
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Anything
May
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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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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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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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it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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Youth is always an enemy to the old.
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First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know) next I was a realist now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
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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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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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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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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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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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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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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.
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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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