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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

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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
Life
Pathos
Tragedy
Worse

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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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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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I liked human beings, but I did not love human 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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Cruelty is the only sin.
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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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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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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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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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... 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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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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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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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
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It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
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