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Susan Glaspell Biography

Susan Keating Glaspell (July 1, 1876 – July 28, 1948) was an American playwright, novelist, journalist and actress. With her husband George Cram Cook she founded the Provincetown Players, the first modern American theatre company. During the Great Depression, she served in the Works Progress Administration as Midwest Bureau Director of the Federal Theater Project.

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

Chicago, People, Place, Write, Writing

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

Glad, Like, Made, Newspapers, Write, Writing

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

Half, Past, Uninvited, Welcome

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

Goes On, Hearing, Long, War, Worst

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

Light, May, Person, Wrong, Wrong Person

I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.

Hot, Sorrow, Think, Thinking, Women, World

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

Knowledge, Men, Past, Ten, Thinks, Years

Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.

Breeds, Courage, Door, Doors, Opens, Resentment

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.

Firsts, Given, Immortality, Thinking, World

Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.

Americanised, Brotherhood, Democracy, Opportunity

We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

Different, Kind, Thing, Trifles

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

Denial, Formed, Hell, Hells, Suppression

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

Children, Having, Inspirational, Kids, Quiet

We are living now. We shall not live long. No one should tell us we shall live again. This is our little while. This is our chance.

Chance, Littles, Living, Long

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

Littles, Machine, Machines, Time, Wonder

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.

Artist, Care, Defeat, Glory, Material, Poets

In writing. . . remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

Together, War, Wars, Writing, Written

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

Clock, Imposed, Standards, Time, Whole

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.

Facts, Feeling, Feelings, Heart, Light

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

Opulent, Reckless, Thing, Tidy, Would Be

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