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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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Blessing
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America
Mind

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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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... 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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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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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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. . . 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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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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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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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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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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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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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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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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it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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