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
sentimental sentimentality
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
ends materials mere
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
hurt prayer believe
I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb.
remembrance desire illogical
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
believe fighting people
The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
spring heart healing
Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.
men judging appearance
After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
humanity human-nature being-human
I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.
valleys sanctuary spirituality
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.
demand littles
He who demands little gets it.
character murder-mysteries necks
... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
men vanity soil
Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.
children fun men
There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
trouble natural humans
The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.