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
lying mean long-ago
Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.
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.
age youth
But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
blessing america track
America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
favorite-hobby hobbies vacuums
In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!
tragedy life-is pathos
The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
reality illumination mind
... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
writing painful found
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.
men imagination senses
women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
success men satisfaction
There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.
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.
spring loneliness terrible
There is a terrible loneliness in the spring ...
stupidity selfishness stronger
There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
long suffering able
So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.