Susan Glaspell Quotes

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• Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.
• Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.
• For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's…
• We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.
• I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.
• In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written about…
• Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.
• They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.
• Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.
• Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.
• A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.
• What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.
• The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past…
• Women are used to worrying over trifles.
• I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.
• The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.
• We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea that there is…
• I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I used to row…
• 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…
• There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

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