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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.

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.

Susan Glaspell
Heart, Light, Feelings
Susan Glaspell (1940). “The morning is near us: a novel”, Stokes

I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

Susan Glaspell
Writing, Newspapers, Made

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.

Susan Glaspell
Thinking, World, Firsts
Susan Glaspell, Eric S. Rabkin (1912). “Lifted Masks, and Other Works”, p.256, University of Michigan Press

... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.

Susan Glaspell
Light, May, Wrong Person
Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.

Susan Glaspell
War, Long, Goes On
Susan Glaspell (2008). “Plays”

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.

Susan Glaspell
Use, May, Sake
Susan Glaspell (1940). “The morning is near us: a novel”, Stokes

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.

Susan Glaspell
Artist, Care, Defeat
Susan Glaspell (2008). “The Glory of the Conquered”, p.48, Wildside Press LLC

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

Susan Glaspell
Writing, People, Chicago

I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.

Susan Glaspell
Thinking, People, World
Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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