Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone.… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs? — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
