American - Author | January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
Edith Wharton
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
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In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
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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.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
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Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
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What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
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