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Letter "E" » 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.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
delicacies, implication, implications, their world, The Young Man
«Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
«If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty 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.»
«A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.»
«What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
«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.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
conventionalities, conventionality, irrespective, merits
«In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
«Everything about her was both vigorous and exquisite.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
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