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O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

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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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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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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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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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Theories have nothing to do with life.
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I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.
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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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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
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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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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
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