Quotes by Susan Glaspell - Page 1

To cease to love -- that is defeat.
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Cease
Defeat
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Women are used to worrying over trifles.
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Trifles
Used
Women Are
Worrying
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Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.
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Doors
Resentment
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It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.
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Denial
Hell
Suppression
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Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.
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Men
War
Killing Others
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Humility's a real thing - not just a fine name for laziness.
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Fine
Humility
Laziness
Real Thing
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Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.
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Motivation
Spending
Vain
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Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.
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Love Always
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Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.
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Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.
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Inspirational
Kids
Children
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A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.
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Time
Littles
Machines
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That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.
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War
Goes On
Long
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As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.
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Friendship
Cherish
Grows
Thinking
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... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.
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Light
May
Wrong Person
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Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end.
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Childhood
Ends
Hurt
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Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.
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Chicago
People
Writing
Me People Where
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We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.
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Different
Kind
Trifles
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They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.
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Effort
Made
Soul
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The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.
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Human Beings
Stories
Together
Beings
Biggest
Closer
Draw
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Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.
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Criticism
Judging
Water
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I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.
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Women
Sorrow
Thinking
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I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.
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Busy
People
Thinking
World
Time Myself World
Time Myself Busy
No Time
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We're all made of the same kind of stuff, and there's none of us made of stuff that's flawless.
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Flawless
None
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What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.
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Men
Important
Past
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I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.
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Glad
Made
Newspapers
Writing
I Am Me Know
Newspaper
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Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.
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Half
Past
Welcome
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There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.
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Conquer
Heart
Human Heart
Struggle
Life Good Heart
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Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.
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Artist
Care
Defeat
Glory
Apply
Conquered
Good Material
Poets
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We are living now. We shall not live long. No one should tell us we shall live again. This is our little while. This is our chance.
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Chance
Littles
Long
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The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.
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Journey
Knowledge
Men
Past
Thinking
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What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.
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Reckless
Tidy
Would Be
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The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.
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Feelings
Heart
Light
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Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.
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Opportunity
Brotherhood
Democracy
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Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them.
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May
Sake
Use
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I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.
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Brotherhood
Translated
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What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.
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Time
Clock
Standards
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Most of the people of this world are coated round and round with self-esteem, and they're afraid to admit any understanding of the things which aren't good.
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Self Esteem
Good World People
Admit
Round
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There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.
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Firsts
Thinking
World
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We don't see the Bible as it is itself. We see it in relation to a lot of people who surround it. And because we don't care for some of them, we think we shouldn't care for it.
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Bible
Relation
Surround
People Care See
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But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?
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Brave
Desert
Gone
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I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I used to row and skate, ride on the ferry in childhood, watch the logs or just dream.
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Ferry
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Sea
Log
Ride
River
Row
Skate
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I'm not sure I would be a good godmother. I have read about it, and I found that the godmother's position is to take care of the morals of the child. I don't know how good I would be at that.
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Godmother
Position
Take Care
Morals
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In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.
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War
Together
Writing
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I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right; Darwin worked it out step by step. Who's ahead? And which has any business scoffing at the other?
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Conception
Different Ways
Evolution
Poetic
Darwin
Goethe
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For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.
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Deny
Half
Self
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We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea that there is a kind of dividing line in the world, and that on the one side is the good, and on the other side the bad, why, all I can say is that you have a wrong notion of things.
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Dividing
Notion
Good World Fight
Big One
Good Fight World
Formed
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Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an obscure street which it seemed a little improper to be walking on, as everything was closed for Sunday, upstairs through a sort of side entrance over a saloon.
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Afternoon
Obscure
Sunday
Upstairs
Closed
Declining
Entrance
Saloon
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I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she does illumine, and she makes relationships realities as well as people. But I remember the intensity, the thrill, with which I read 'Passage to India.' How I would have hated anyone who took the book away from me.
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Admire
Book
Intensity
Thrill
Virginia
Wonder
Me Remember People
Inner
Passage
Realities
Relationships
Took
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I would supplant the ox with the automobile and pave instead of plowing the fields. 1 have a theory that if a corn field were paved, leaving out a brick for each hill, it would increase the yield, do away entirely with the mud, and give the farmer plenty of time to meditate on lofty subjects. That is only one theory. I have many others.
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Automobile
Corn
Fields
Increase
Leaving
Lofty
Mud
Plenty
Subjects
Theory
Yield
Away
Brick
Each
Entirely
Ox
Instead
Meditate
Pave
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