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Ellen Glasgow, an American novelist, was born on April 22, 1873, and died on November 21, 1945. Her works are known for their profound psychological insights and critical portrayal of the Southern society.

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Famous Ellen Glasgow Quotes

“the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.”

May States Today Young Emotion Tomorrow Finality Fluent

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.”

Thinking Mind Humans May Country Dream Human Beings Sensitive Native Barriers Protected Inaccessible Native Country

Book:Works

Source: Works

“To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.”

May Pleasure Danger Drink Misery Drinking Distraction

Book:Vein of Iron

Source: Vein of Iron

“Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.”

May Happiness

Book:Vein of Iron

Source: Vein of Iron

“though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.”

May Happiness Pleasure

Book:Works

Source: Works

“But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.”

Should May Past Law Permanent I Have Learned

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.”

Men May Littles Bigs Might Cutting Blood Fit Shapes Patterns Every Man Pairs Jest Little Man

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.”

May Happens Surprise

Book:Vein of Iron

Source: Vein of Iron

“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?”

Way May Long Doe Has Beens War Evil Imagination Wonder Civilization Battle Invisible Release Defeated Adversaries Frail Actuality Elementals Barbarity

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“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.”

Writing Mind May Persons Art Artist Interesting Fiction Primitive Impressive Dullness

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“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.”

Ifs Way May Happens Courses Events Design Habit Circumstances Eternal Repeats Peculiar Recurrence

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“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.”

Ifs Men Believe May Doe Responsibility Accepting Please

Book:Vein of Iron

Source: Vein of Iron

About the Author

Born: April 22, 1873
Died: November 21, 1945
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 191

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Vein of IronRelated source material

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