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> [I would supplant the ox with the automobile and pave instead of plowing the fields. 1 have a theory that if a corn field were paved, leaving out a brick for each hill, it would increase the yield, do away…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-glaspell/i-would-supplant-the-ox-with-the-automobile-and-pave-instead-of/)

[Susan Glaspell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-glaspell/)

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## Other authors on Brick

## More by Susan Glaspell

> [It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-glaspell/it-is-through-suppression-that-hells-are-formed-in-us/)

[Susan Glaspell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-glaspell/)

> [Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-glaspell/defeat-furnishes-good-material-to-the-poets-and-the-artists-but-none/)

[Susan Glaspell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-glaspell/)

> [Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-glaspell/be-the-most-you-can-be-so-life-will-be-more-because-you-were/)

[Susan Glaspell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-glaspell/)

> [Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-glaspell/hurts-of-childhood-live-on-in-one-form-or-other-they-are-there-to-the/)

[Susan Glaspell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-glaspell/)

> [What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-glaspell/what-men-have-thought-about-life-in-the-past-is-less-important-than/)

[Susan Glaspell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-glaspell/)

> [I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I used to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-glaspell/i-live-by-the-sea-but-the-body-of-water-i-have-the-most-feeling-about/)

[Susan Glaspell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-glaspell/)

> [But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-glaspell/but-mayn-t-desertion-be-a-brave-thing-a-fine-thing-to-desert-a-thing/)

[Susan Glaspell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-glaspell/)

> [They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-glaspell/they-made-small-effort-to-cover-their-raw-souls-with-the-mantle-of/)

[Susan Glaspell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-glaspell/)

> [What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-glaspell/what-is-a-clock-something-agreed-upon-and-arbitrarily-imposed-upon-us/)

[Susan Glaspell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-glaspell/)

> [Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-glaspell/im-an-american-weve-translated-democracy-and-brotherhood-and-equality/)

[Susan Glaspell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-glaspell/)

> [In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-glaspell/in-writing-remember-that-the-biggest-stories-are-not-written-about/)

[Susan Glaspell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-glaspell/)

> [We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-glaspell/we-all-go-through-the-same-things-it-s-all-just-a-different-kind-of/)

[Susan Glaspell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-glaspell/)

> [“Oh, I wish I’d come over here once in a while! That was a crime! That was a crime! Who’s going to punish that?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-glaspell/oh-i-wish-i-d-come-over-here-once-in-a-while-that-was-a-crime-that/)

[Susan Glaspell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-glaspell/)

> [That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-glaspell/that-s-the-worst-of-a-war-you-have-to-go-on-hearing-about-it-so-long/)

[Susan Glaspell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-glaspell/)

> [I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-glaspell/i-go-about-in-the-world-free-busy-happy-among-people-i-have-no-time/)

[Susan Glaspell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-glaspell/)

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