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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.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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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.
Ellen Glasgow
there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.
Ellen Glasgow
Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.
Ellen Glasgow
I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
Ellen Glasgow
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
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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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
Ellen Glasgow
Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
Ellen Glasgow
That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
Ellen Glasgow
What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.
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It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
Ellen Glasgow
I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
Ellen Glasgow
... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.
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In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.
Ellen Glasgow
Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
Ellen Glasgow
it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
Ellen Glasgow
irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
Ellen Glasgow
I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
Ellen Glasgow
No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
Ellen Glasgow
