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Letter "E" » Edith Wharton Quotes
«There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| About:
Discipline
| Keywords:
candle, in two ways, light, mirror, reflects, spreading, spread over, The Mirror, ways
«My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet»
«I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting»
«If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.»
«Silence may be as variously shaded as speech»
«The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
classic, conformed, conforms, definitions, fits, freshness, irrepressible, The Classics
«There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| About:
Destiny,
Imagination
| Keywords:
rises, subdued, surveying, surveys, windings
«In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
date, disintegration, illness, insatiable, log, logs, unafraid, usual
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