Each time you happen to me all over again.


Edith Wharton

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The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
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The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
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In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have ...
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JAMES FRAIN
Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all f...
SUZY KASSEM
Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
It was very bitter for me to see this happen all over again. And I felt I had to do something.
JUDITH KARPOVA
Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing...
EDITH WHARTON
I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite...
KEN FOLLETT
The culture that Edith Wharton writes about is very nouveau riche. They don't have the experience or...
JANE JONES
Will you let me talk? I'll have to learn the language all over again!
STAN FREBERG
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger ...
ANNE SULLIVAN
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger ...
ANNE SULLIVAN
I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and ...
CHRIS PRENTISS
This is like my first time all over again,
OMARION
Each time that I have felt like I might finally be figuring some things out, life has decided to cha...
JENNIFER ELISABETH
My soul feels reborn each time I see you; falling in love with you again and again.
STEVE MARABOLI
It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON
And as a new day starts, I'll heal each scar I've and start all over again
DALEEN IRSHAID
It stayed so true to the play. It felt like you were in the theater all over again. Everybody was cl...
DANA COHEN
All I can tell you is this: That won't happen again.
JAMES MATHIS
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
EDITH WHARTON
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
EDITH WHARTON
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time...
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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
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To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
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When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it ...
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it in...
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There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rise...
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to br...
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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
EDITH WHARTON
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
EDITH WHARTON
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
EDITH WHARTON
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and belo...
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I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the ame...
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Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
EDITH WHARTON
Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the cho...
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The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
EDITH WHARTON
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to...
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An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
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When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does...
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Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet...
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There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who refle...
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My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a...
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c...
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove...
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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret...
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh...
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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinctio...
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t...
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In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth...
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My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
EDITH WHARTON
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
EDITH WHARTON
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all...
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Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli...
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri...
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
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An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
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There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definition...
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There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that i...
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a par...
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth...
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Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be in...
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Everything about her was both vigorous and exquisite.
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My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.
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As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in it...
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...but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of ...
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Silence may be as variously shaded as speech
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It seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, even if breakable in prosperity, should be i...
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My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a...
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If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
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Though he turned the pages with the sensuous joy of the book-lover, he did not know what he was read...
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The mere idea of a woman's appealing to her family to screen her husband's business dishonour was in...
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It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look fo...
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But marriage is a one long sacrifice.
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They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods
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There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises abo...
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His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness h...
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I feel that each case must be judged individually, on its own merits ... irrespective of stupid conv...
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In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or do...
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There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce th...
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Xingu!" she scoffed. "Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unpre...
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She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
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She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, da...
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His life, for years past, had been mainly a succession of resigned adaptations, and he had learned, ...
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My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.
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The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEIN
In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it ...
EDITH STEIN
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elev...
EDITH STEIN
If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
EDITH STEIN
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN
This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is ...
EDITH STEIN
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever...
EDITH SITWELL
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous...
EDITH SITWELL
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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