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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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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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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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Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
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for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
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A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.
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But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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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 suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
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though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
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The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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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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women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
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