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Edith Wharton Quotes

«The persons of their world lived in an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies, and the fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to the young man to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.»
«Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.»
«If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.»
Author: Edith Wharton (Novelist) | Keywords: Good Time
«Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.»
Author: Edith Wharton (Novelist) | About: Age, Elderly | Keywords: Delicious, flowing, haughty
«A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.»
Author: Edith Wharton (Novelist) | Keywords: diploma, diplomas
«What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.»
«I feel that each case must be judged individually, on its own merits ... irrespective of stupid conventionalities... I mean, each woman's right to her liberty.»
«In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.»
«Everything about her was both vigorous and exquisite.»

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