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It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
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That was one of the worst things about suffering; it made one indifferent and insincere.
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I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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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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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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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also, with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of men and women. As the weeks passed, that inextinguishable hope, which mounts always with the rising sap, looked from their faces.
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The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
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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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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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What a man marries for's hard to tell... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.
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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 bitter truth of experience, she perceived with sudden insight, that the shape of things returns again and again in the same pattern.
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Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
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Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love'.
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[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.
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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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The life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success — the true success so different from the ephemeral — is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.
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So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.
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Idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.
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A successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.
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What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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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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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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