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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 seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
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Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
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Most women want their youth back again but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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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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The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
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What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
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The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
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So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
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