Susan Glaspell quotes
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“We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.44, Cambridge University Press
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“In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell, Eric S. Rabkin (1912). “Lifted Masks, and Other Works”, p.55, University of Michigan Press
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“Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell (2008). “Plays”
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“Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.42, Cambridge University Press
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“Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell (1940). “The Morning is Near Us: A Novel”
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“Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.”
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“What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell (1912). “Lifted Masks”
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“There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell, Eric S. Rabkin (1912). “Lifted Masks, and Other Works”, p.256, University of Michigan Press
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“It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook (1921). “Plays”
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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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“I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.”
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“They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell, Eric S. Rabkin (1912). “Lifted Masks, and Other Works”, p.93, University of Michigan Press
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“I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.”
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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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“... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.118, Cambridge University Press
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“To cease to love -- that is defeat.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell (1940). “The Morning is Near Us: A Novel”
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“Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.”
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“As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.”
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“There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell, Eric S. Rabkin (1912). “Lifted Masks, and Other Works”, p.110, University of Michigan Press
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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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“Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.”
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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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“Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell (1940). “The Morning is Near Us: A Novel”
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“Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell (1940). “The morning is near us: a novel”, Stokes
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“We are living now. We shall not live long. No one should tell us we shall live again. This is our little while. This is our chance.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell (1918). “The People: And, Close the Book”
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“For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell, Eric S. Rabkin (1912). “Lifted Masks, and Other Works”, p.84, University of Michigan Press
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“Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell (2008). “Plays”
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“The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.132, Cambridge University Press
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“What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook (1920). “Plays”
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“Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell (1940). “The Morning is Near Us: A Novel”
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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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“The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.”
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“What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell (1940). “The morning is near us: a novel”, Stokes
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“A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.”
-- Susan GlaspellSource : Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook (1920). “Plays”
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