There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity. Ellen Glasgow More Quotes by Ellen Glasgow More Quotes From Ellen Glasgow To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting. Ellen Glasgow redemptioneconomyethics O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books! Ellen Glasgow let-mewritingbook [Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads. Ellen Glasgow reformeyemight Too much principle is often more harmful than too little. Ellen Glasgow too-muchprincipleslittles you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well. Ellen Glasgow pleasurecommittedsin There is a terrible loneliness in the spring. Ellen Glasgow terriblelonelinessspring In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity! Ellen Glasgow favorite-hobbyhobbiesvacuums America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. Ellen Glasgow trackblessingamerica But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age. Ellen Glasgow youthage Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth. Ellen Glasgow halfgivingheaven Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered. Ellen Glasgow long-agomeanlying I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write. Ellen Glasgow painfulendswriting What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being. Ellen Glasgow hearttimejoy Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design. Ellen Glasgow designpeculiarmay Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage. Ellen Glasgow youthcourageculture What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind. Ellen Glasgow mediocritydepressingway I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say. Ellen Glasgow tonguedryfire A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short. Ellen Glasgow noveltoo-shortlong The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one. Ellen Glasgow fightingopportunitybelieve Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces. Ellen Glasgow healingheartspring
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