Ellen Glasgow Quotes - Page 8

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• you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

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  Sin, Pleasure, Committed

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

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  Sacrifice, Self, Poor

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

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  Land, Truth Is, Drivers

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

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  Decay, Surrender, Assault

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• To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

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  Grief, Failing, Endeavor

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• the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

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  Years, Novel, Great Novels

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Dignity is an anachronism.

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  Dignity, Anachronism

  Ellen Glasgow, (2013). “In This Our Life”, p.8, Read Books Ltd

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• There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Mind, Monsters

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• It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

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  Hurt, Feelings, Difficult

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.

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  Energy, Disease

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

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  Country, Dream, Thinking

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

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  Men, Ems, Politics

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.395, The Floating Press

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• ...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.

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  Hero, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.

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  Fashion, Thinking, Thoughtful

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