American - Novelist | April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Ellen Glasgow
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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
LifeLiteratureViolenceAlwaysBoth
To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
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No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
LifeYouWayHardTakeCannot
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
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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.
LifeSuccessIndependenceFinancial
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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