it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
Ellen GlasgowAfter a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
Ellen Glasgow1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.
Ellen Glasgow