Ellen Glasgow - Experience Quotes

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For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

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What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life — the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being.

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Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

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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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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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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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For my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

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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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