Ellen Glasgow Quotes - Page 8

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• There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Mind, Monsters

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• Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

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  Reality, Age, Youth

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

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  Past, Discovery, Years

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• the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

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  Years, Novel, Great Novels

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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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.

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  Children, Fun, Men

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• ... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.

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  Character, Murder Mysteries, Nineteen

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• you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.

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  Cutting, Men, Blood

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• First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

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  Next, Fool, Firsts

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.

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  Spring, Healing, Heart

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.203, The Floating Press

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• There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

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  Country, Dream, Thinking

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.

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  Energy, Disease

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

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  Men, Practice, Religion

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

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  Land, Truth Is, Drivers

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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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.

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  Years, Differences, Making A Difference

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