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
romance literature innocence
... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
american-novelist change movement
All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
advice agree beginning prove taking word
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.
repetition stale
Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.
human-nature humans overestimate
It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
disappointment knowing littles
It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.
sentimental sentimentality
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
remembrance desire illogical
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
distance passion light
idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.
spring loneliness terrible
There is a terrible loneliness in the spring ...
illusion borrowed
Borrowed illusions are better than none ...
theory
Theories have nothing to do with life ...
redemption ethics economy
To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
return impermanence hardest
The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.