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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.

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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
Earth
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Youth
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Even
Chance
Heaven
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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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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.
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The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
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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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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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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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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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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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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
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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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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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