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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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Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
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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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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.
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So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
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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 only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
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First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know) next I was a realist now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
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It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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He who demands little gets it.
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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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Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
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