O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books! Ellen Glasgow More Quotes by Ellen Glasgow More Quotes From Ellen Glasgow Energy had fastened upon her like a disease. Ellen Glasgow disease energy A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it. Ellen Glasgow farming corn fool Youth is always an enemy to the old. Ellen Glasgow youth generations enemy There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success. Ellen Glasgow satisfaction success men True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity. Ellen Glasgow inward goodness grace There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity. Ellen Glasgow selfishness stronger stupidity It is only in the heart that anything really happens. Ellen Glasgow happens heart The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk. Ellen Glasgow earth views sky But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad. Ellen Glasgow speak looks thinking It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all. Ellen Glasgow apology example humble irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay. Ellen Glasgow decay ingredients vision Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment. Ellen Glasgow longing law memories A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother. Ellen Glasgow doctrine endurance brother No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing. Ellen Glasgow status-quo revolution sheep Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness. Ellen Glasgow grandpa happiness What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them. Ellen Glasgow two people thinking It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt. Ellen Glasgow difficult hurt feelings Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy. Ellen Glasgow anarchy ordinary two women love with their imagination and men with their senses. Ellen Glasgow senses imagination men Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none. Ellen Glasgow nerves trying people
