Quote by Ellen Glasgow
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or fina

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. – Ellen Glasgow

Other quotes by Ellen Glasgow

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. – Ellen Glasgow

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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. – Ellen Glasgow

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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldnt repeat a success. Very often youre going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then youre trapped. – Jack Nicholson

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When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success. – Enya

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I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake. – Bethenny Frankel

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Whenever I hear, It cant be done, I know Im close to success. – Michael Flatley

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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. – Marquis de Sade

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