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Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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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.
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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 revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
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I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
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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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I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
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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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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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to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
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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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. . . 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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