Indirect Quote by Ellen Glasgow

“So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.”

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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

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I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go,…

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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…

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

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Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

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The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring…

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I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost…

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Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons…

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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

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You look as if you lived on duty and it hadn't;t agreed with you.

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there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

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Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

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Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

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In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.

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Sometimes indirect style and varying chronology is great, but quite often I've seen it be just something that gets in the way. It turns…

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...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

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The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of…

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