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Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.


Edith Sitwell

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GRACE VILLARREAL I was just so far out of my element out there.
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EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does...
EDITH WHARTON Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet...
EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a...
EDITH HAMILTON None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio...
EDITH HAMILTON I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been k...
EDITH CAVELL I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever ...
EDITH ARMSTRONG There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who refle...
EDITH WHARTON My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a...
EDITH WHARTON Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,...
EDITH HAMILTON Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
EDITH HAMILTON It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.
EDITH NESBIT Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
EDITH HAMILTON The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
EDITH WHARTON I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c...
EDITH WHARTON After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove...
EDITH WHARTON Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret...
EDITH WHARTON Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh...
EDITH WHARTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinctio...
EDITH WHARTON Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t...
EDITH WHARTON In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi...
EDITH HAMILTON Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming t...
EDITH HEAD