Edith Wharton Quotes - Page 4

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• The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.

  Edith Wharton

  Friendship, Jobs, Hug

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• Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.

  Edith Wharton

  Fiction, Narrative, Moments

  Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

  Edith Wharton

  New York, Divorce, Literature

  Edith Wharton (2011). “The New York Stories of Edith Wharton”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

  Edith Wharton

  Noses, Red, Cry

  Edith Wharton (2008). “The House of Mirth (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.379, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

  Edith Wharton

  Time, Age, Leaves Of Grass

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• Everybody who does anything at all does too much.

  Edith Wharton

  Doe, Too Much

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2933, Delphi Classics

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• The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

  Edith Wharton

  Heart, Differences, People

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.299, Booklassic

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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.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Alive, Literature

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.4, Edith Wharton

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• She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

  Edith Wharton

  Tolerance, Mirth, Scene

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.32, Xist Publishing

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• We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

  Edith Wharton

  Wine, Bottles, Opening

  Edith Wharton (2011). “The Custom of the Country (鄉土風俗)”, p.1083, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Freedom, Thinking

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• She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.

  Edith Wharton

  Boredom, Afternoon, Might

  Edith Wharton (2013). “House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  Edith Wharton

  Air, Breathing, Ideas

  Edith Wharton (2010). “The Age of Innocence”, p.174, Bibliolis Books

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• She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.

  Edith Wharton

  Butterfly, Kissing, Arms

  Edith Wharton, Barbara Anne White (1995). “Wharton's New England: Seven Stories and Ethan Frome”, p.152, UPNE

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• We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.

  Edith Wharton

  Soul, Acres, March

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Touchstone: American Literature”, p.36, VM eBooks

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• Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

  Edith Wharton

  Society, Used, States

  Edith Wharton (2008). “Old New York”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

  Edith Wharton

  Memories, Eye, Fire

  Edith Wharton (1990). “Novellas and Other Writings”, Library of America

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• Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

  Edith Wharton

  Book, Mind, Want

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.12, Xist Publishing

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• Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

  Edith Wharton

  Thinking, Sea, Literature

  "The Age of Innocence".

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• As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

  Edith Wharton

  Pain, Healing, Compassion

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.134, VM eBooks

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• Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?

  Edith Wharton

  Together, Get Together

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1960, Delphi Classics

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• How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

  Edith Wharton

  Country, Patriotic, Thinking

  Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Breaths

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2061, Delphi Classics

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• A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

  Edith Wharton

  Definitions, Beloved, Classic

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• My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.

  Edith Wharton

  Writing, Pages, Way

  Edith Wharton (2013). “A Backward Glance”, p.142, Lulu Press, Inc

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