Ellen Glasgow Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Reality, Imagination, Fiction

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.161, University of Virginia Press

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• Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.

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  People, Trying, Nerves

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

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  Hate, War, World

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• The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.

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  Return, Impermanence, Hardest

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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• She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

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  Memories, Grief, Struggle

  Ellen Glasgow (2010). “The Battle Ground”, p.502, The Floating Press

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• My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

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  Reading, Heaven, Desire

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• Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

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  Valleys, Sanctuary, Spirituality

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

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  Happiness, May, Pleasure

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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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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  Years, Want, Youth

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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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  Men, Youth, Human Nature

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.277, The Floating Press

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• No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

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  Ideas, Someday, Modern

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• But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.

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  Past, Law, May

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• The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

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  Children, Giving, Childhood

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.14, University of Virginia Press

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• The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.

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  Winning, Love Is, Way

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

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  Disappointment, Knowing, Looks

  Ellen Glasgow (0101). “The Sheltered Life”, p.199, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

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  War, Littles, Killing

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

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  Literature, Violence, Crude

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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• Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

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  Women, Almighty, Enigma

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• If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

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  Grief, Heart, Moon

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

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  May, Surprise, Happens

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.

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  Opportunity, Principles, Way

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

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  Success, Independence, Credit

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• That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

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  Giving, Sickness, Poor

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

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  Two, Ordinary, Anarchy

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

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  Retirement, Age, Twenties

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