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And she saw now that the strong impulses which had once wrecked her happiness were the forces that had enabled her to rebuild her life out of the ruins.
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He's at the age when a man knows everything on earth an' generally knows it wrong.
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Anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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Last night the stars were magnificent — Pegasus and Andromeda faced me brilliantly when I lifted my shade, so I went down and had a friendly reunion with the constellations.... I get a wonderful peace and the most exquisite pleasure from my friendship with the stars.
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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
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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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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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And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?
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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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The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.
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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
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To the land, she had given her mind and heart with the abandonment that she had found disastrous in any human relation.
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But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, 'O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!'
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For my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
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The old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
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The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of it.
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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
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The great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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I shouldn't mind it if I saw the admirable sweep on to success, or immortality, but always it seems to be the ordinary, the vulgar, and the average, or the lower average, that triumphs. Nothing would astonish me, after all these years, except to be understood.
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Henceforth she must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest — in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
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The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
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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 has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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Ellen Glasgow
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Born:
April 22, 1873
Died:
November 21, 1945
(aged 72)
Bio:
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was an American novelist who portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South.
Known for:
Barren Ground (1925)
The sheltered life (1932)
The romantic comedians (1926)
Vein of iron (1935)
The Deliverance (1904)
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