Edith Wharton Quotes - Page 2

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• Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

  Edith Wharton

  Life, Giving, Bed

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• The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Luckily the inconsequent life is not the only alternative; for caprice is as ruinous as routine. Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

  Edith Wharton

  Writing, Age, Routine

  "A Backward Glance".

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• Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.

  Edith Wharton

  Fall, Thinking, Events

  Edith Wharton (2016). “Early Short Stories: American Literature”, p.106, VM eBooks

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• Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

  Edith Wharton

  Facts, Wells, Knows

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Touchstone: American Literature”, p.66, VM eBooks

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• She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

  Edith Wharton

  Joy, Solitude, Taste

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.60, Xist Publishing

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• Each time you happen to me all over again.

  Edith Wharton

  Love, Romantic, Happens

  Edith Wharton (2015). “Age of Innocence”, p.81, Oxford University Press

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• The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

  Edith Wharton

  Real, Keys, Two

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.131, Edith Wharton

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• How I hate everything!

  Edith Wharton

  Hate, I Hate

  Edith Wharton (2006). “Summer”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

  Edith Wharton

  Vision, Literature, Originality

  Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Running, Mind

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4977, Delphi Classics

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• There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

  Edith Wharton

  Sorrow, Age, Aging

  1934 A Backward Glance, 'A First Word'.

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• It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

  Edith Wharton

  World, Easy, Enough

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.232, VM eBooks

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• I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

  Edith Wharton

  Education, Men, Interesting

  "The Fruit of the Tree".

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• You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.

  Edith Wharton

  Mistress, Expensive

  "Old New York".

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• Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

  Edith Wharton

  Past, Long, Intellectual

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.7523, Delphi Classics

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• traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

  Edith Wharton

  Tradition, Lost, Hardest

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.3542, Delphi Classics

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• I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.

  Edith Wharton

  Children, Thinking, Two

  Edith Wharton (1994). “Short Stories”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

  Edith Wharton

  Balance, Desire, Sound

  Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman (2015). “The Decoration of Houses”, p.33, Courier Dover Publications

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• Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

  Edith Wharton

  Mad, House

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Collected Works of Edith Wharton”, p.3355, e-artnow sro

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• Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspiring, Mother, Sin

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.161, Xist Publishing

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• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  Edith Wharton

  Inspiring, Air, Breathing

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.169, Booklassic

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• The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

  Edith Wharton

  Money, Thinking, Literature

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.69, Xist Publishing

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• I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Wings, Feels

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Reef: American Literature”, p.113, VM eBooks

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• They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Butterfly, Winter

  Edith Wharton (2005). “Ethan Frome - Literary Touchstone”, p.85, Prestwick House Inc

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• One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

  Edith Wharton

  Beautiful, Art, Firsts

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.6879, Delphi Classics

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