Ellen Glasgow Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
More Ellen Glasgow quote about:
- Age,
- Art,
- Attitude,
- Books,
- Children,
- Desire,
- Earth,
- Giving,
- Grief,
- Habits,
- Happiness,
- Heart,
- Human Nature,
- Hurt,
- Imagination,
- Irony,
- Literature,
- Mediocrity,
- Passion,
- Past,
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“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”
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“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.”
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“It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.”
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“After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour”
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“The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.”
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“No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.”
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“As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"”
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“Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.”
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“Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?”
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“The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.”
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“Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.”
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“I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.”
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“Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.”
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“Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.”
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“The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.”
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“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.”
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“Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.”
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“Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.”
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“it is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do ...”
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“But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.”
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“Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.”
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“I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.”
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“No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.”
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“It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.”
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“[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.”
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“Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.”
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“convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.”
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“I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.”
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“a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.”
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