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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. D...
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed ...
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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...
By Ellen Glasgow
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
By Ellen Glasgow
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.
By Ellen Glasgow
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.
By Ellen Glasgow
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
By Ellen Glasgow
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
By Ellen Glasgow
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
By Ellen Glasgow
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern
that it will not someday be antiquated.
that it will not someday be antiquated.
By Ellen Glasgow
I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.
By Ellen Glasgow
No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
By Ellen Glasgow