Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgowwas an American novelist who portrayed the changing world of the contemporary south...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 April 1873
CityRichmond, VA
CountryUnited States of America
successful principles doe
a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.
bears levels politics
I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.
beauty normal labels
... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
thoughtful thinking order
Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.
hero blessing thoughtful
...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.
fashion thoughtful thinking
I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.
reading heaven desire
My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.
unhappy affair enjoy
Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
tragedy life-is pathos
The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
views sky earth
The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
sin pleasure committed
you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
stupidity selfishness stronger
There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
time heart joy
What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being ...
giving heaven half
Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.