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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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Nothing
Life

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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.
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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.
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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
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She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
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A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.
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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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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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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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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.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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Dignity is an anachronism.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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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.
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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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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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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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