Ellen Glasgow Quotes - Page 3

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• . . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

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  Love, Flower, Animal

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1963). “Collected Stories”

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• Cruelty is the only sin.

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  Sin, Cruelty

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• . . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.

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  Dog, Hurt, Uncles

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• There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

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  Stupidity, Selfishness, Stronger

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

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  Memories, Law, Longing

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• There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

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  Success, Men, Satisfaction

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

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  Sarcastic, Majority, Produce

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “Virginia”, p.126, The Floating Press

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• The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

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  Tragedy, Life Is, Pathos

  Ellen Glasgow (1938). “Virginia”

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• After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

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  Men, Judging, Appearance

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

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  Moderation, Explosions

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• Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

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  Women, Knitting, Trouble

  1932 The Sheltered Life, pt.3, section 3.

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• anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

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  Jealousy, Anger, Heart

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

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  Reality, Ideas, Flying

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• Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

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  Courage, Culture, Youth

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• In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!

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  Favorite Hobby, Vacuums, Hobbies

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• To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

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  Self, Teach

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• What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

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  Depressing, Mediocrity, Way

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

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• When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release?

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  War, Civilization, Evil

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• Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

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  Sacrifice, People, Neighbor

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

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  Government, Want, Mules

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Voice of the People”, p.213, The Floating Press

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• Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

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  Happiness, Grandpa

  Ellen Glasgow, (2013). “In This Our Life”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

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• I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

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  Sentimental, Sentimentality

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• Borrowed illusions are better than none.

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  Illusion, Borrowed

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

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  Vision, Decay, Ingredients

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

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  Age, Youth

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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