Ellen Glasgow Quotes - Page 4

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• But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Thinking, Looks, Speak

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

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• Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Art, Perfection, Enough

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• True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Grace, Inward, Goodness

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• ... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

  Ellen Glasgow

  War, Choices, Horror

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• a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Successful, Principles, Doe

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1900). “The Voice of the People”

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• You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Journey, Looks, Duty

  "Works".

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• Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Grief, Passion, Heart

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• So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Long, Suffering, Able

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.143, University of Virginia Press

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• The suitable is the last thing we ever want.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Want, Lasts, Suitable

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• America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Blessing, America, Track

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• Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Bird, Form, Engaging

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.232, University of Virginia Press

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• No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Lonely, Loneliness, World

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

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• The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Trouble, Natural, Humans

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Passion, Thinking, World

  Ellen Glasgow, (2013). “In This Our Life”, p.174, Read Books Ltd

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• It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Thinking, Persuasion

  Ellen Glasgow (2010). “The Battle Ground”, p.184, The Floating Press

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

  Ellen Glasgow

  Redemption, Ethics, Economy

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Youth, Cynicism

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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.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Tests, Should, Prose

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• He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Mind, World

  1900 The Voice of the People, bk.2, ch.4.

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• ... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psychology, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Art, Thinking, Psychology

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• Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Fire, Light, Long

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• The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Self, Personality, World

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• Happiness is a hardy annual.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Happiness, Hardy, Annuals

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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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 one.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Believe, Fighting, Opportunity

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it. ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Lonely, Enough, Used

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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