“Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion ….”
Ellen Glasgow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Moderation
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“… to be “literary” appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.”
Ellen Glasgow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable in contemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization …”
Ellen Glasgow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“I have watched … many literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop…. Yet with the many that I have seen come and 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
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.”
Ellen Glasgow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Immortality
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“… though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.”
Ellen Glasgow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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“When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release?”
Ellen Glasgow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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“Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another age … when so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.”
Ellen Glasgow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: History
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“No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.”
Ellen Glasgow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Experience
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“Doesn’t all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?”
Ellen Glasgow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Experience
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“I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature…. I would write of characters, not of characteristics.”
Ellen Glasgow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Character
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“Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.”
Ellen Glasgow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Youth
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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
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“… beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.”
Ellen Glasgow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Beauty
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“No life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.”
Ellen Glasgow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Choice
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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.”
Ellen Glasgow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.”
Ellen Glasgow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.”
Ellen Glasgow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Change
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“Nothing in life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.”
Ellen Glasgow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Attitude
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“He knows so little and knows it so fluently.”
Ellen Glasgow
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Knowledge
