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Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Edith Wharton
Silence, Literature, May
Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1366, Delphi Classics

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Edith Wharton
Vision, Literature, Originality
Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton
Money, Thinking, Literature
Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.69, Xist Publishing

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Edith Wharton
New York, Divorce, Literature
Edith Wharton (2011). “The New York Stories of Edith Wharton”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

Edith Wharton
Thinking, Sea, Literature
"The Age of Innocence".

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

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

Edith Wharton
People, Literature, Lines
Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4525, Delphi Classics

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

Edith Wharton
Tears, Literature, Enough
Edith Wharton (2014). “The Writing of Fiction”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.

Edith Wharton
Mean, Literature, Remembered
Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.200, VM eBooks

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

Edith Wharton
Mind, Literature, Landscape

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.

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

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