Ellen Glasgow Quotes - Page 8

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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.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Sin, Pleasure, Committed

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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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.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Hero, Thoughtful, Thinking

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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.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Fashion, Thinking, Thoughtful

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

  Ellen Glasgow

  Romance, Literature, Innocence

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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.

  Ellen Glasgow

  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.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Art, Writing, Interesting

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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.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Thinking, Order, Feminist

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

  Ellen Glasgow

  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.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Design, Peculiar, May

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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.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Years, Differences, Making A Difference

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

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Practice, Religion

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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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.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Country, Dream, Thinking

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Energy, Disease

  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.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Land, Truth Is, Drivers

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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