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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
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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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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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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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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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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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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
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Dignity is an anachronism.
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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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Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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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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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.
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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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Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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