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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
Pathos
Tragedy
Worse
Life

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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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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 never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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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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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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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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I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.
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