Susan Glaspell Quotes - Page 2

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• Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.

  Susan Glaspell

  Opportunity, Brotherhood, Democracy

  Susan Glaspell (1912). “Lifted Masks”

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• But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

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  Brave, Desert, Gone

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• I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

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  Writing, Newspapers, Made

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• ... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.

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  Light, May, Wrong Person

  Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.

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  War, Long, Goes On

  Susan Glaspell (2008). “Plays”

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• Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them.

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  Use, May, Sake

  Susan Glaspell (1940). “The morning is near us: a novel”, Stokes

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• Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.

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  Artist, Care, Defeat

  Susan Glaspell (2008). “The Glory of the Conquered”, p.48, Wildside Press LLC

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• Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

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  Writing, People, Chicago

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• I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.

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  Thinking, People, World

  Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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