Ellen Glasgow Quotes - Page 7

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• Youth is always an enemy to the old.

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  Enemy, Generations, Youth

  Ellen Glasgow (1902). “The Battle-Ground”, p.271, University of Alabama Press

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• One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

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  Focus, Foundation, World

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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• I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

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  Human Nature, Humans, Human Beings

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• Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

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  Unhappy, Affair, Enjoy

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.

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  Death, Enjoy, Perversity

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

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  Writing, Painful, Ends

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being.

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  Time, Heart, Joy

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.

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  Lying, Mean, Long Ago

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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• Dignity is an anachronism.

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  Dignity, Anachronism

  Ellen Glasgow, (2013). “In This Our Life”, p.8, Read Books Ltd

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• To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

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  Grief, Failing, Endeavor

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• ... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

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  Romance, Literature, Innocence

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• I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb.

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  Hurt, Prayer, Believe

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• I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

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  Writing, Self, Independence

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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. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.

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  Art, Writing, Interesting

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• 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.

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  Attitude, Honor, Age

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• It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

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  Hurt, Feelings, Difficult

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost something precious, but have gained, immeasurably, by the passing of the old order.

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  Thinking, Order, Feminist

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• Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.

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  Running, Spring, Flames

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

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  Long, Influence, Indirect

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• Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

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  Design, Peculiar, May

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• I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.

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  Fashion, Thinking, Thoughtful

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• ...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.

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  Hero, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

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  Sin, Pleasure, Committed

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

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  Sacrifice, Self, Poor

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

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  Men, Ems, Politics

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.395, The Floating Press

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