Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who portrayed the changing world of the contemporary south.
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“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.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1874–1945)
“Nothing ... is so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, it was kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)