Showing posts with label Ellen Glasgow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ellen Glasgow. Show all posts

Friday, December 2, 2011

What Ellen Glasgow said


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. 

·         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.



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