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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.
Ellen Glasgow
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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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... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
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Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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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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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
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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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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
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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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To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
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I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
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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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