Ellen Glasgow quotes

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions. (Ellen Glasgow)
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. View quote
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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. View quote
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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 away. View quote
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Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. View quote
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It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. View quote
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Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance. View quote
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He knows so little and knows it so fluently. View quote
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No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. View quote
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice. View quote
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting. (Ellen Glasgow)
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Human nature. I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings. View quote
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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do. View quote
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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? View quote
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No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it. View quote
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. (Ellen Glasgow)
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. View quote
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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. View quote
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... this rage I have never forgotten it contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others. View quote
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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. View quote
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