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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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The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few intense joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
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The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
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To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
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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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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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