Ellen Glasgow Quotes - Page 5

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• As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"

  Ellen Glasgow

  Book, Writing, Night

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• audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Risk, Quality, Audacity

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Corn, Fool, Farming

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Voice of the People”, p.152, The Floating Press

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• To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Drinking, May, Misery

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• ...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and tired and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has crumbled around us. Its finest creation, a code of manners, has been ridiculed and discarded.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Tired, Curiosity, Immature

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• For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Imagination, Novel

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

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• To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Reality, Ideas, Flying

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• Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Giving, Heaven, Half

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Humanity, Human Nature, Being Human

  Ellen Glasgow, (2013). “In This Our Life”, p.144, Read Books Ltd

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• The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Spring, Writing, Civilization

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• idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Distance, Passion, Light

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

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  Fire, Dry, Tongue

  Ellen Glasgow (2015). “The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields”, p.137, The Floating Press

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• Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

  Ellen Glasgow

  Ends, Materials, Mere

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• Theories have nothing to do with life.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Theory

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• After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour

  Ellen Glasgow

  Rain, Bars, Golden

  Ellen Glasgow (2008). “Life and Gabriella (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Spring, Flower, Air

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.224, The Floating Press

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• 1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Spring, Book, Light

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• The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Mind, Different, Ephemeral

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

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• I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Writing, Character, Human Nature

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• Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.

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  Thoughtful, Thinking, Order

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• ... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.

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  Beauty, Normal, Labels

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• it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

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  Morality, Originality, Wiser

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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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  Views, Sky, Earth

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

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  Book, School, Dust

  1941 In This Our Life, pt.3, ch.9.

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• ... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Life, Reality, Earth

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