I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
Edith Wharton
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EDITH WHARTON
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
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EDITH WHARTON The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
EDITH WHARTON In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
EDITH WHARTON To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
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EDITH WHARTON The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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EDITH WHARTON ...they who exchange their independence for the sweet name of Wife must be prepared to find all is n...
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EDITH WHARTON She rose too, not as if to meet him or to flee from him, but quietly, as though the worst of the tas...
EDITH WHARTON Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your
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EDITH WHARTON Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.
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EDITH WHARTON He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than ...
EDITH WHARTON It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
EDITH WHARTON At this point it's simply a suspect case, so we're just taking the extra precautions to make sure no...
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DAVE WHARTON Until there's a selection, NAB is not commenting.
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DENNIS WHARTON We can't remain stagnant. Look what happened to television, the Internet. Everything changes.
DENNIS WHARTON We believe satellite radio companies were licensed for national radio programming services exclusive...
DENNIS WHARTON Most TV and radio stations view the Internet as an opportunity to enhance their service to listeners...
DENNIS WHARTON We think of broadcast TV as a lifeline in a time of emergency. A lot of the people broadcast TV serv...
DENNIS WHARTON We've said we would accept a hard date and get spectrum back to public safety.
DENNIS WHARTON Surveys we have seen suggest parents are using them.
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BRUCE WHARTON The request and reservation forms are available online on our Web site.
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DAVE WHARTON Molly had a great day and really stood out.
DAVE WHARTON I don't believe in shutting down practices just to win meets. Some people live and breath by dual me...
DAVE WHARTON She's just an all-around swimmer. We try to utilize her wherever we have any weak points in the meet...
DAVE WHARTON As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the fac...
EDITH PIAF What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th...
EDITH HAMILTON He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great...
EDITH HAMILTON I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
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EDITH WIDDER One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably...
EDITH WIDDER We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecti...
EDITH WIDDER We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made ...
EDITH WIDDER In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapago...
EDITH WIDDER It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent ...
EDITH WIDDER I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organ...
EDITH WIDDER I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurre...
EDITH WIDDER The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.
EDITH WIDDER If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the anima...
EDITH WIDDER Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sp...
EDITH WIDDER For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bio...
EDITH WIDDER I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we&...
EDITH WIDDER It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that...
EDITH WIDDER Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in ...
EDITH WIDDER We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there...
EDITH WIDDER There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tel...
EDITH WIDDER During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would s...
EDITH WIDDER Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw...
EDITH WIDDER The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it th...
EDITH STEIN All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself...
EDITH STEIN A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community un...
EDITH STEIN During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impert...
EDITH STEIN The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so ex...
EDITH STEIN Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mot...
EDITH STEIN Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into...
EDITH STEIN As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people...
EDITH STEIN Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past s...
EDITH STEIN The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation ...
EDITH STEIN One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And t...
EDITH STEIN Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology...
EDITH STEIN Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for t...
EDITH STEIN On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every co...
EDITH STEIN Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' ...
EDITH STEIN Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is t...
EDITH STEIN The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every discipli...
EDITH STEIN 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