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Theories have nothing to do with life.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
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Suffragette
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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Life
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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.
Ellen Glasgow
But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
Ellen Glasgow
The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow
. . . 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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Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
Ellen Glasgow
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.
Ellen Glasgow
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
Ellen Glasgow
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
. . . 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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No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
Ellen Glasgow
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
Ellen Glasgow
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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The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
Ellen Glasgow
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.
Ellen Glasgow
a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
Ellen Glasgow
The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
Ellen Glasgow
So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
Ellen Glasgow
Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
Ellen Glasgow
... 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.
Ellen Glasgow
Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
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