Ellen Glasgow Quotes
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irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
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Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.
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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
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There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.
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Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
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But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
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Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.
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Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.
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And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?
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A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
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Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.
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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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a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.
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convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.
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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.
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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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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
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Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.
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Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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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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Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
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I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.
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