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Edith Wharton Quotes

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937

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Art Doing Done Modern Modern Art

Everybody's so scared to be honest with one another. If you didn't like the way I handled myself in practice, one of the players, come up to me. Somebody say something - anybody. I'm not gonna take it as offense; it's not personal.

Myself Practice Me You Say Personal

I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.

Work Best Hate Politics Meetings

A lot of people say about 'Gossip Girl,' 'Well, how do you feel about gossip?' Well, who really likes gossip? No one likes to be talked about if it's not flattering or a compliment.

Girl People Feel You Gossip Say

If I hadn't been fair, I would never have made the $6 billion in real estate deals that I did. I mean, if you're not fair, people don't want to deal with you.

Jerry Reinsdorf

People Real Estate You Want Never

Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

Good Time Present You Write Well

When everything is stripped away in life, everybody is a human being that has problems, that has issues, has flaws, that isn't perfect. It doesn't make a difference what your sex is, what your sexual preference is, what your race is or what your background is. If you're a good person, you're OK in my book.

Life Good Book Make A Difference You

Some people may long for an era when divorce was still hard to come by. The spread of no-fault divorce has reduced the bargaining power of whichever spouse is more interested in continuing the relationship. And the breakup of such marriages has caused pain for many families.

Stephanie Coontz

Relationship Power Pain People Long

To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.

Miguel Indurain

Life Live Beautiful Free Most Thing

It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

Change Myself Hate Peace Mom Long

I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.

Lorraine Toussaint

Life Work Child Small Big Playing

Don't be afraid to try something new.

New Try Afraid Something

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.

Dreams Age Time Politics Night

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