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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
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
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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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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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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Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
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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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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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