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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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1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.
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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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A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.
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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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But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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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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for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
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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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She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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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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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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