Ellen Glasgow Quotes about Reality

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Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

Ellen Glasgow

Reality, Imagination, Fiction

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.161, University of Virginia Press

No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

Ellen Glasgow

Reality, Ideas, Flying

To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

Ellen Glasgow

Reality, Ideas, Flying

... 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.

Ellen Glasgow

Life, Reality, Earth