Susan Glaspell Quotes

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• We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

  Susan Glaspell

  Different, Kind, Trifles

  Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

  Susan Glaspell

  War, Writing, Together

  Susan Glaspell, Eric S. Rabkin (1912). “Lifted Masks, and Other Works”, p.55, University of Michigan Press

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• Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.

  Susan Glaspell

  Susan Glaspell (2008). “Plays”

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• It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

  Susan Glaspell

  Denial, Hell, Suppression

  Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook (1921). “Plays”

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• Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

  Susan Glaspell

  Water, Judging, Criticism

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• There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

  Susan Glaspell

  Struggle, Heart, Conquer

  Susan Glaspell, Eric S. Rabkin (1912). “Lifted Masks, and Other Works”, p.110, University of Michigan Press

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• To cease to love -- that is defeat.

  Susan Glaspell

  Defeat, Cease

  Susan Glaspell (1940). “The Morning is Near Us: A Novel”

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• Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

  Susan Glaspell

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

  Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

  Susan Glaspell

  Time, Littles, Machines

  Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook (1920). “Plays”

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• As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.

  Susan Glaspell

  Thinking, Cherish, Grows

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• What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

  Susan Glaspell

  Would Be, Reckless, Tidy

  Susan Glaspell (1940). “The morning is near us: a novel”, Stokes

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• Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

  Susan Glaspell

  Past, Half, Welcome

  Susan Glaspell (1940). “The Morning is Near Us: A Novel”

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• We are living now.
  We shall not live long.
  No one should tell us we shall live again.
  This is our little while.
  This is our chance.

  Susan Glaspell

  Long, Littles, Chance

  Susan Glaspell (1918). “The People: And, Close the Book”

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• The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

  Susan Glaspell

  Knowledge, Past, Men

  Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.

  Susan Glaspell

  War, Men, Killing Others

  Susan Glaspell (2008). “Plays”

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• Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.

  Susan Glaspell

  Doors, Resentment

  Susan Glaspell (1940). “The Morning is Near Us: A Novel”

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• Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end.

  Susan Glaspell

  Hurt, Childhood, Ends

  Susan Glaspell (1940). “The Morning is Near Us: A Novel”

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• What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

  Susan Glaspell

  Time, Clock, Standards

  Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook (1920). “Plays”

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• What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.

  Susan Glaspell

  Past, Men, Important

  Susan Glaspell (1912). “Lifted Masks”

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• Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.

  Susan Glaspell

  Motivation, Vain, Spending

  Susan Glaspell (1940). “The morning is near us: a novel”, Stokes

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• For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.

  Susan Glaspell

  Self, Half, Deny

  Susan Glaspell, Eric S. Rabkin (1912). “Lifted Masks, and Other Works”, p.84, University of Michigan Press

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• I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.

  Susan Glaspell

  Women, Thinking, Sorrow

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• They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.

  Susan Glaspell

  Effort, Soul, Made

  Susan Glaspell, Eric S. Rabkin (1912). “Lifted Masks, and Other Works”, p.93, University of Michigan Press

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• Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.

  Susan Glaspell

  Opportunity, Brotherhood, Democracy

  Susan Glaspell (1912). “Lifted Masks”

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• I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

  Susan Glaspell

  Writing, Newspapers, Made

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