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I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

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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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Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.
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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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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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I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
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audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
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