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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.


Edith Wharton

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EDITH SITWELL I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am...
EDITH SITWELL I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
EDITH SITWELL I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
EDITH SITWELL Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred a...
EDITH SITWELL A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
EDITH SITWELL People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki...
EDITH SCHAEFFER The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from.
EDITH ROGERS I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki...
EDITH ROGERS But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf...
EDITH ROGERS The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its min...
EDITH PEARLMAN I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b...
EDITH PEARLMAN I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be...
EDITH PEARLMAN I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ...
EDITH PEARLMAN There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin...
EDITH PEARLMAN I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
EDITH PEARLMAN Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit...
EDITH PEARLMAN In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ...
EDITH PEARLMAN The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr...
EDITH PEARLMAN I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo...
EDITH PEARLMAN I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'...
EDITH PEARLMAN