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Ellen Glasgow Quotes

"I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end."

"The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions."

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."
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"Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do."

"As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!""

"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens."

"Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it."

"All change is not growth; all movement is not forward."

"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book."

"He knows so little and knows it so fluently."

"Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting."

"I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say."

"Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted."

"No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it."

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