What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Ellen Glasgow
The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
Ellen Glasgow
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
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
Ellen Glasgow
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
Ellen Glasgow
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
Ellen Glasgow
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.