Ellen Glasgow Quotes - Page 7

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• No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Sheep, Revolution, Status Quo

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Weather, Rely Upon, Fiction

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Writing, Painful, Ends

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being.

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  Time, Heart, Joy

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.

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  Death, Enjoy, Perversity

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.

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  Lying, Mean, Long Ago

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

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• I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Writing, Self, Independence

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• Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.

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  Art, Writing, Interesting

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• ... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Romance, Literature, Innocence

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• I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost something precious, but have gained, immeasurably, by the passing of the old order.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Thinking, Order, Feminist

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• The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.

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  Attitude, Honor, Age

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• you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Cutting, Men, Blood

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• Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Design, Peculiar, May

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• So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

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  Long, Influence, Indirect

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• First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

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  Next, Fool, Firsts

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Hurt, Prayer, Believe

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• I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

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  Years, Differences, Making A Difference

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• ... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.

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  Character, Murder Mysteries, Nineteen

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• Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Running, Spring, Flames

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Children, Fun, Men

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• Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

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  Men, Practice, Religion

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.

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  Hurt, Freedom, Long

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• Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

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  Reality, Age, Youth

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.

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  Spring, Healing, Heart

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.203, The Floating Press

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• In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Past, Discovery, Years

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