Ellen Glasgow Quotes - Page 6

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• It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Birthday, Lovely, Forget The Past

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

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• Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Might, Spirit, Isolation

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Levels, Politics, Bears

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

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• What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Past, Men, Hard

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• marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Believe

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.187, The Floating Press

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• What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Thinking, Two, People

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• [Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Eye, Reform, Might

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Unhappy, Affair, Enjoy

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

  Ellen Glasgow

  Book, Writing, Let Me

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• ... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

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  Reality, Illumination, Mind

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• the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.

  Ellen Glasgow

  May, Today, Emotion

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• A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Brother, Endurance, Doctrine

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Writing, Imagination, Novelists

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

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• Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Eternity, Ends

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Human Nature, Humans, Human Beings

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• The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . . . the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Nature, Children, Compassion

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• Youth is always an enemy to the old.

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  Enemy, Generations, Youth

  Ellen Glasgow (1902). “The Battle-Ground”, p.271, University of Alabama Press

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• One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Focus, Foundation, World

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

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• for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Art, Purpose, Fiction

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

  Ellen Glasgow

  People, Taught, Cruelty

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

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• It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Humble, Apology, Example

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

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  Believe, Sin, Cruelty

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.231, University of Virginia Press

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• Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Vanity, Soil

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

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  Nature, Land, Contentment

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Voice of the People”, p.150, The Floating Press

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• Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.

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  Eye, Comfort, Chance

  Ellen Glasgow (1933). “The Old Dominion Edition of the Works of Ellen Glasgow: The Miller of Old Church”

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