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Ellen Glasgow quotes: Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar. Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances. After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: They will never again build like this, he thought. Dignity is an anachronism. They will never again build like this, he thought. Dignity is an anachronism.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it. The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness. Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace. I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Borrowed illusions are better than none ... Borrowed illusions are better than none ...
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart. Anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity. Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay. Irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living. The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds. Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: The whole younger generation looks to me like a sum that doesn't add up.' Lavinia The whole younger generation looks to me like a sum that doesn't add up.' Lavinia
Ellen Glasgow quotes: He knows so little and knows it so fluently. He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: The only differnce between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. The only differnce between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature. Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing. No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone. There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Cynicism is a sure sign of youth. Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics. I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price. Though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature ... I would write of characters, not of characteristics. I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature ... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember. I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions. The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity. There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs? Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
Ellen Glasgow quotes: For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination ... For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination ...
Ellen Glasgow quotes: It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment. It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror. Though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had. It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out. What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Women love with their imagination and men with their senses. Women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit. Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Theories have nothing to do with life ... Theories have nothing to do with life ...
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy ... Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy ...
Ellen Glasgow quotes: A self-made martyr is a poor thing. A self-made martyr is a poor thing.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: The great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time. The great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do. Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity. Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Few forms of life are so engaging as birds. Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie. Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe. Marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Energy had fastened upon her like a disease. Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface. Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature. Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction. Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: There are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for. There are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Youth is always an enemy to the old ... Youth is always an enemy to the old ...
Ellen Glasgow quotes: I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em ... I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em ...
Ellen Glasgow quotes: A successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions. A successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: He who demands little gets it. He who demands little gets it.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: A good novel cannot be too long nor a bad novel too short. A good novel cannot be too long nor a bad novel too short.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: It is only in the heart that anything really happens. It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: 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. 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.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy. There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it. The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities. Convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: 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. 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.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do ... It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do ...
Ellen Glasgow quotes: The suitable is the last thing we ever want. The suitable is the last thing we ever want.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: You look as if you lived on duty and it hadn't;t agreed with you. You look as if you lived on duty and it hadn't;t agreed with you.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Cruelty is the only sin. Cruelty is the only sin.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated. Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'. Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting. Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success. There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature? And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?
Ellen Glasgow quotes: But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad. But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion
Ellen Glasgow quotes: To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice. To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ... So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ...
Ellen Glasgow quotes: I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write. 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 quotes: All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world ... One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world ...
Ellen Glasgow quotes: What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind. What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated. Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk. The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it. Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: It is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself ... It is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself ...
Ellen Glasgow quotes: The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver. The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: You could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well. You could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: It is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality. It is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Human nature. I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings. Human nature. I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth. Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it. The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage. Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me. I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley. Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: We love from little motives, not for large reasons. We love from little motives, not for large reasons.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age. Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: 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. 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 quotes: What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason. What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.
Ellen Glasgow quotes: The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy. The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

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