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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.

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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
Men
Love
Senses
Imagination
Women

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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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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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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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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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There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
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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.
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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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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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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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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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But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
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Dignity is an anachronism.
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I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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