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“... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.”

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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. more

“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

“... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.”

Has Beens Beauty Human Nature Authority Normal Supreme Labels Ecstasy Mediocrity Hostile Commonplace Homo Sapiens Real Beauty

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“Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.”

Thinking Moments Order Energy Social Justice History Creating Letters Social Justice Eras Thoughtful Customs Thinker Sheer Vulgar Victorian Social Order

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.”

“I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.”

Thinking Culture Literature Fashion Approach Thoughtful Fades Infallible Fads

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.”

Life Reality Earth Approach Ordinary Direct Universal Surface Realism Universality Direct Approach

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.”

Feels Firsts Made Desire Reading Heaven Judgment Conviction Revelations Affected Imitation Trumpets

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“... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.”

Romance Literature Innocence Unending Deluded

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“I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.”

Writing Humans Character Human Nature Universal Characteristics

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.”

Writing Self Wanted Independence Advertising Reciprocal

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