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I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.

Edith Wharton

New York, Intelligent, Boston

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We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

Edith Wharton

Wine, Bottles, Opening

Edith Wharton (2011). “The Custom of the Country (鄉土風俗)”, p.1083, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

Edith Wharton

Heart, Differences, People

Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.299, Booklassic

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In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

Edith Wharton

Grief, Heart, Desert

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She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

Edith Wharton

Joy, Solitude, Taste

Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.60, Xist Publishing

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Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

Edith Wharton

Mad, House

Edith Wharton (2013). “Collected Works of Edith Wharton”, p.3355, e-artnow sro

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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 towards the watcher on the shore.

Edith Wharton

Fiction, Narrative, Moments

Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

Edith Wharton

Happiness, Butterfly, Winter

Edith Wharton (2005). “Ethan Frome - Literary Touchstone”, p.85, Prestwick House Inc

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Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

Edith Wharton

Facts, Wells, Knows

Edith Wharton (2016). “The Touchstone: American Literature”, p.66, VM eBooks

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He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.

Edith Wharton

Flower, Sunrise, Arms

Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1992, Delphi Classics

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Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

Edith Wharton

May

Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2005, Delphi Classics

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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.

Edith Wharton

Substance, Literature, Lilies

Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.33, VM eBooks

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I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

Edith Wharton

Happiness, Wings, Feels

Edith Wharton (2016). “The Reef: American Literature”, p.113, VM eBooks

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She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

Edith Wharton

Soul, Vision, Trying

Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2268, Delphi Classics

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Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

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Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

Edith Wharton

Mean, Ideas, Illusion

Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.64, VM eBooks

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She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Edith Wharton

Tolerance, Mirth, Scene

Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.32, Xist Publishing

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...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

Edith Wharton

Clever, Liars, Giving

Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.239, Booklassic

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In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

Edith Wharton

Real, Arbitrary, Done

Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.39, Booklassic

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The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

Edith Wharton

Memories, Eye, Fire

Edith Wharton (1990). “Novellas and Other Writings”, Library of America

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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.

Edith Wharton

Happiness, Alive, Literature

Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.4, Edith Wharton

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Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

Edith Wharton

Art, Breaths

Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2061, Delphi Classics

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... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

Edith Wharton

Routine, Caprice

Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.4, Edith Wharton

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I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

Edith Wharton

Lovers, Incorrigible, Adventurer

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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

Edith Wharton

Country, Patriotic, Thinking

Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

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Born: January 24, 1862
Died: August 11, 1937
Occupation: Novelist
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