American - Author | January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
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My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
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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.
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When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
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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.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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