The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children ... the blindness of the unpitiful these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds.
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... 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.Ellen Glasgow
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
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As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, O God, let me write books Please, God, let me write books.
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
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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.
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