Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

Ellen Glasgow

. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

Animal

Flower

Love

. . . this rage – I have never forgotten it – contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life – the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.

Dog

Hurt

Uncles

… beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.

Beauty

Labels

Normal

… 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.

Character

Murder Mysteries

Nineteen

… the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

Illumination

Mind

Reality

… the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psychology, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.

Art

Psychology

Thinking

… the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

Earth

Life

Reality

… though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

Choices

Horror

War

… to be “literary” appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

Innocence

Literature

Romance

…America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the “tough guy;” today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.

Hero

Thinking

Thoughtful

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Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

Ellen Glasgow

… beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.

… 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.

… the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

… the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psychology, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.

… the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

… though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

… to be “literary” appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

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