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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

“One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.”

World Focus Stones Foundation Lays Reputation Volume Good Work

Book:Letters of Ellen Glasgow

Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow

“Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.”

Thinking World Passion Surface

Book:In This Our Life

Source: In This Our Life

“What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.”

World War Reason Hate Conflict I Hate Hated War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.”

World Self Rooms Personality Boundaries Excellent Horizon Attributes Egotism

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and tired and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has crumbled around us. Its finest creation, a code of manners, has been ridiculed and discarded.”

World Has Beens Made Age Creation Strange Tired Curiosity Manners Eras Code Ritual Finest Vigorous Prudent Immature Passed Away Discarded Immaturity Rubrics

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.”

World Modern Loneliness Conscience Lonely Modern World Feeling Lonely

Book:Letters of Ellen Glasgow

Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow

“He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.”

Men World Mind Wells Matter Earth Force Felt He Man Great Things Revelations Farmers Small Things Farming Rebellious Undone Farming And Farmers

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.”

Ifs Men World Children Fun Differences Half Skins

Author:Ellen Glasgow

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

Letters of Ellen GlasgowRelated source material

The DescendantRelated source material

Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with WomenRelated source material

The Miller of Old ChurchRelated source material

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