Ellen Glasgow - Barren Ground (1925)

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She had worked so hard for so many years that the habit had degenerated into a disease, and thrift had become a tyrant instead of a slave in her life.

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Though her capacity for emotion was dead, some diabolical sense of humor had sprung up like fireweed from the ruins. She could laugh at everything now, but it was ironic laughter.

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For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

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Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

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Since her childhood it had seemed to her that the movement of all laws, even natural ones, was either suspended or accelerated on the Sabbath.

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To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

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[Her] spirit of fortitude has triumphed over the sense of futility.

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Youth can never know the worst, she understood, because the worst that one can know is the end of expectancy.

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The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

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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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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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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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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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He went on endlessly, overcome by the facile volubility of a weak nature.

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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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