"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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Ellen Glasgow

#Fire Quotes #Dry Quotes #Tongue Quotes

“Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?”
“I have a really interesting political point of view, and its not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you cant go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You cant. I wouldnt wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics every since.”
“Socially, the issue of men's weight is simply not a big deal.”
“early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!”
“The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure shall be disappointed; and therefore few reach it, because few are willing to use violence to themselves in resisting temptations.”
“I had a lot of time to myself, and I would listen to a lot of music, mostly music that I knew fairly well and had a relationship with. And I'd think, well, what is it that I've never been able to do that this person or people are able to do with this song? Why haven't I been able to do it, and what can they do that I wish I could do? And then I'd try to do that. I'd start each day getting into the songs, and I'd think about how I might get closer to this music that I love, but haven't been able to make before.”
“Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?”
“Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.”

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