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 GlasgowAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: american
- Born: March 22, 1874
- Died: November 21, 1945
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