Edith Wharton Quotes - Page 7

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• In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

  Edith Wharton

  Tears, Literature, Enough

  Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  Edith Wharton

  People, Different, Stories

  Edith Wharton, Barbara Anne White (1995). “Wharton's New England: Seven Stories and Ethan Frome”, p.99, UPNE

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• It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

  Edith Wharton

  Beautiful, Eye, Thinking

  Edith Wharton (2010). “The Age of Innocence”, p.53, Bibliolis Books

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• Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the sense, between himself and her, of a kind of free-masonry of precocious tolerance and irony. They had both, in early youth, taken the measure of the world they happened to live in: they knew just what it was worth to them and for what reasons, and the community of these reasons lent to their intimacy its last exquisite touch.

  Edith Wharton

  Taken, Community, Tolerance

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2130, Delphi Classics

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• In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.

  Edith Wharton

  Oats, Rotation, Crops

  The Age of Innocence ch. 31 (1920)

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• His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

  Edith Wharton

  Men, Saws, Emptiness

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2107, Delphi Classics

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• For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer noon, when the heat seems to have silenced the very birds and insects, and, lying sunk in the tasselled meadow grasses, one looks up through a level roofing of maple-leaves at the vast, shadowless, and unsuggestive blue.

  Edith Wharton

  Sweet, Lying, Blue

  Edith Wharton (2001). “Early Short Fiction”, p.50, Electric Book Company

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• Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!

  Edith Wharton

  Lying, Together, Poverty

  Edith Wharton (1950). “An Edith Wharton treasury”

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• I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.

  Edith Wharton

  Believe, Saint, Believe In God

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• Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.

  Edith Wharton

  Summer, Moon, Sky

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.188, Xist Publishing

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• Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. I loved light ever, light in eye and brain No tapers mirrored in long palace floors, Nor dedicated depths of silent aisles, But just the common dusty wind-blown day That roofs earth's millions.

  Edith Wharton

  Eye, Light, Wind

  Edith Wharton (2002). “Artemis to Actaeon and More: Selected Verse”, p.16, Wildside Press LLC

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• He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.

  Edith Wharton

  Girl, Adventure, Men

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.144, VM eBooks

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• There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

  Edith Wharton

  Wife, Trying, Use

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2085, Delphi Classics

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• But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

  Edith Wharton

  Destiny, Together, Half

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.187, Xist Publishing

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• There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

  Edith Wharton

  Goodbye, Saying Goodbye, Thinking

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.791, Delphi Classics

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• With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.

  Edith Wharton

  Ignorance, Hypocrisy, Together

  Edith Wharton (2010). “The Age of Innocence”, p.36, Bibliolis Books

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• In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Abundance, Vocation

  Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

  Edith Wharton

  Stories, Form, Short Story

  Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• ..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

  Edith Wharton

  Husband, Ties, Wife

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.192, VM eBooks

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• [B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.

  Edith Wharton

  Ideas, Needs, World

  Edith Wharton (2012). “The Age of Innocence”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• Do you know-I hardly remembered you?
  Hardly remembered me?
  I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.

  Edith Wharton

  Mean, Literature, Remembered

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.200, VM eBooks

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• If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

  Edith Wharton

  May, Architecture, Sanity

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

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• The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.

  Edith Wharton

  Stories, May, Moral

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• People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

  Edith Wharton

  Years, People, Trouble

  Ethan Frome ch. 7 (1911)

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• He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.

  Edith Wharton

  Silence, Bed, Lasts

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.732, Delphi Classics

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