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Edith Wharton [1862-1937] American

Rank: 101
Author, Novelist

Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930.

Imagination, Age, Art, Death, Experience, Freedom, Inspirational, Pet, Wisdom

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.	Inspirational	62
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.	Imagination	102
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.	Experience, Wisdom	103
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.		104
My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.	Pet	105
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.		106
To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?		107
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.	Art	108
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.		109
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.		110
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.		111
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.	Imagination	112
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.	Age, Death, Freedom	113
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.		114
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.		115
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.		116
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.		117
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.		118
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.		119
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.		120
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.		121
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.		122
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.		123
What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.		124
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.		125
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.		126
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.		201

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