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Theories have nothing to do with life.

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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
Theories
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Life

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to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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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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O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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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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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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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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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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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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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 hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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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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Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.
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Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
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