"Violence commands both literature and life, and violence……" — Ellen Glasgow
"Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted."
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66 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow
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- It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled…
- . . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was…
- After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the…
- He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
- The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life…
- No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
- In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
- Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
- I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
- You look as if you lived on duty and it hadn't;t agreed with you.
- She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by…
- Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.