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... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.
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
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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
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Happiness is a hardy annual.
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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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... 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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Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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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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irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
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What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
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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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