Ellen Glasgow (1873 - 1945) was an American novelist from Virginia who wrote about
the changing world of the contemporary south, and these are some of her wise sayings.
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All
change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
·
Doesn't
all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
·
He
knows so little and knows it so fluently.
·
I
waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years;
and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make
a difference in living.
·
Mediocrity
would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
·
No
idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it
will not someday be antiquated.
·
No
matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended
and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school
history book.
·
The
only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
·
Nothing
in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
·
What
happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
·
Nothing
is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
