Ellen Glasgow Quotes About Literature
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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
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... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.
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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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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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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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