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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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. . . 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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. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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Cruelty is the only sin.
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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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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.
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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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Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
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To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
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Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
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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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The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
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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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