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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.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
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Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
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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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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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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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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
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The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
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to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
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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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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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