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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.
Source: In This Our Life, pt. 3, ch. 9, 1941.
-- Ellen Glasgow, (Apr 22 1874-1945), US author; Her novels were studies in Southern life; won Pulitzer, 1942; works include Barren Ground and The Sheltered Life.