Ellen Glasgow quotes - page 2

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity. (Ellen Glasgow)
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. View quote
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I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember. View quote
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As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, O God, let me write books Please, God, let me write books. View quote
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... every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures. View quote
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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. View quote
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