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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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Writing
Please
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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Happiness is a hardy annual.
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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Youth is always an enemy to the old.
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He who demands little gets it.
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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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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 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 human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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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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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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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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... 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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Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
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No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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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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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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