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If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
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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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I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
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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 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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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
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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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If I eat lobster, and if I don't eat lobster, I shall regret it.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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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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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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Though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
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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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There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
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It is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
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Molly was in the mood when the need to talk — to let oneself go — is so great that the choice of a listener is little more than an accident.
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He went on endlessly, overcome by the facile volubility of a weak nature.
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Nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
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We didn't talk so much about happiness in my day. When it came, we were grateful for it, and, I suppose, a little went farther than it does nowadays. We may have been all wrong in our ideas, but we were brought up to think other things more important than happiness.
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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the Valley.
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Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
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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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