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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
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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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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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it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
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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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The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
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Theories have nothing to do with life.
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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.
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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
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idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
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