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Edith Wharton Quotes

Edith Wharton quotes

American Author, Writer January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937

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Edith Wharton quote: "he plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated..."
he plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate Edith Wharton
They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their..."
...but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... ("Afterward") Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she..."
So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of..."
Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions. Edith Wharton
Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to Edith Wharton
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore. Edith Wharton
Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "She had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to..."
She had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for it all. Edith Wharton
Real reading is reflex action; the born reader reads as unconsciously as he breathes; and, to carry the analogy a degree farther, reading is no more a virtue than breathing. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were..."
And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ... Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not..."
There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free. Edith Wharton
I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome. Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton quote: "In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well..."
In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert. Edith Wharton
He pocketed his watch with a milder look, and began to turn about busily in the empty shell of his own mind. His universe was a brilliantly illuminated circle extending from himself at it's centre to the exact limit of his occupations and interests. Edith Wharton

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