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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.

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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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Doubtful
Enjoyed
Track
Blessing
Single
America

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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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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
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there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.
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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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I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
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Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
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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.
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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.
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