Susan Glaspell
Susan Glaspell
Susan Keating Glaspellwas an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, novelist, and journalist. With her husband George Cram Cook she founded the Provincetown Players, the first modern American theater company. During the Great Depression she served in the Works Progress Administration as Midwest Bureau Director of the Federal Theater Project...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth1 July 1876
CountryUnited States of America
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The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.
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We are living now. We shall not live long. No one should tell us we shall live again. This is our little while. This is our chance.
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They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.
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It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.
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I'm not sure I would be a good godmother. I have read about it, and I found that the godmother's position is to take care of the morals of the child. I don't know how good I would be at that.
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The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.
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I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.
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Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.
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Most of the people of this world are coated round and round with self-esteem, and they're afraid to admit any understanding of the things which aren't good.
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We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea that there is a kind of dividing line in the world, and that on the one side is the good, and on the other side the bad, why, all I can say is that you have a wrong notion of things.
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Humility's a real thing - not just a fine name for laziness.
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Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an obscure street which it seemed a little improper to be walking on, as everything was closed for Sunday, upstairs through a sort of side entrance over a saloon.
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I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she does illumine, and she makes relationships realities as well as people. But I remember the intensity, the thrill, with which I read 'Passage to India.' How I would have hated anyone who took the book away from me.
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I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right; Darwin worked it out step by step. Who's ahead? And which has any business scoffing at the other?