Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature. Ellen Glasgow More Quotes by Ellen Glasgow More Quotes From Ellen Glasgow I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me. Ellen Glasgow down-and strength lying He knows so little and knows it so fluently. Ellen Glasgow sarcastic littles knowledge No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. Ellen Glasgow lonely loneliness world In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority. Ellen Glasgow produce majority sarcastic You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you. Ellen Glasgow duty journey looks She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories. Ellen Glasgow grief struggle memories . . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others. Ellen Glasgow uncles hurt dog Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion Ellen Glasgow explosions moderation In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being. Ellen Glasgow discovery past years To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice. Ellen Glasgow teach self It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment. Ellen Glasgow knowing disappointment looks I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does. Ellen Glasgow responsibility men believe Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. Ellen Glasgow twenties age retirement I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature. Ellen Glasgow human-beings human-nature humans idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance. Ellen Glasgow distance passion light First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist. Ellen Glasgow fool next firsts Borrowed illusions are better than none. Ellen Glasgow borrowed illusion Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality. Ellen Glasgow imagination reality fiction I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember. Ellen Glasgow novelists imagination writing The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns. Ellen Glasgow impermanence hardest return
