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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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America
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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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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
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Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
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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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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
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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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No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
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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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Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.
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