Edith Wharton
Related EDITH WHARTON Penelope (the parrot) squawked, ‘I’ll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!’... BETTY MACDONALD That was big and that's what Camille can do. She's a great defensive player. Earlier in the season, ... ANTHONY SMITH STACIA KANE JOHN GAY SAMANTHA YOUNG JODI LYNN ANDERSON W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM CHARLOTTE BRONTë She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily. DASHIELL HAMMETT FRANCINE RIVERS SHANNON HALE She was very good as a freshman, and then the latter part of her career her golf took a turn for the... DAN BROOKS In her short life Lily Hartman had come back from the dead not once, but twice. Neither time had bee... PETER BUNZL RUTH REICHL A. S. BYATT 'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter a... JAMES FRAIN BILLIE JEAN KING PAUL BOWLES CARROLL BRYANT GREGORY MAGUIRE JODI LYNN ANDERSON EDITH WHARTON GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. “Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!” he yelled.RICHARD DUE IAN MCEWAN BABYFACE DIANE SETTERFIELD The only explanation for these hideous actions is that she thought she was saving her children. She ... BILL SHEPPARD When we first signed Courtney up for karate, we did it because we thought it was important that she ... REBECCA MCKINNEY W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM BRANDON SANDERSON Iskari let others define her because she thought she didn't have a choice. Because she thought she w... KRISTEN CICCARELLI GILLIAN FLYNN AMOS OZ AYN RAND She started off the season playing much more aggressive because she felt like she had to. She just g... ANTHONY HOUSTON She hates it. She did it all her life and she had to learn how to sew to survive. She couldn't fatho... CHLOE DAO To him, freedom was greater than love. TESSA SHAFFER AYN RAND But she loved her dad; she was a daddy's girl. She said her father had changed the life insurance an... MALINDA GONZALES ALLEGRA GOODMAN To me she looked like a lily, an innocence floating in the pond! AVIJEET DAS One side of me blames her because she did it, but the other side says she didn't because that wasn't... ANDREA YATES HARPER LEE JERRY SPINELLI She was dressed in Indian muslin, and beneath it she only wore a chemise of fine cambric, and by the... JACQUES CASANOVA KEN FOLLETT CASSANDRA CLARE DANIELLE STEEL It was a compound of self-reliance, hard knocks, heart hunger, unceasing work, and generosity. There... GENE STRATTON-PORTER NEAL STEPHENSON STEPHEN CHBOSKY The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, he... PHILLIP NOYCE I knew my own mother had been in the theater for a while and had taught children, because she used t... EVE ARDEN She was incredibly responsible in the workplace, [but] she was incredibly socially immature. Greg [S... LINDA WOJAS I just took her heart away from her right away. I was doing the feints, trying to get her out of her... JAIME CLAMPITT MARCEL PROUST CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE BETTY SMITH IAIN PEARS ELIZABETH GASKELL Ambrosia is a terrific player. I really respect coach Judkins' way with her. She has a lot of freedo... JENN WARDEN ELISABETH SHUE She stayed down real well on the hurdles and her form was really good. She was really focused becaus... BILL MUNRO ELIZABETH WINDER She forgave them, not because they had asked for forgiveness, since they did no such thing, nor beca... TALIDARI ANNA GODBERSEN KURT VONNEGUT MICHAEL GRANT LEO TOLSTOY ROBYN SCHNEIDER STIEG LARSSON She did what she thought in her own professional judgment was best. She might not have been right, b... JOEL HIRSCHHORN My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, ... STANLEY HAUERWAS When I came in [last January], I brought a strength and conditioning program with me. And when I bro... RAVON ANDERSON CASSANDRA CLARE It was evident that she truly was doing her best -- at least to me -- to tell the truth, be as thoro... HAMILTON PETERSON If you like somebody, then it's easier to play with them and it's easier to play harder beside them,... FRANCOIS FOURNIER LOUISE PENNY LEO TOLSTOY RICHELLE E. GOODRICH GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ ...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy an... PAUL HOFFMAN I think it was self-punishment. Her son was dead, and she didn't think she deserved anything because... ELVA FARMER I just thought about the impact she was making on me. Then, it took more of a global perspective. To... KRISTINA MATARAZZO KRISTIN CASHORE She had a huge bump, but she wasn't sure what hit her. It swelled up when she was out there. She did... GINA NOLAN Not everyone was healed during these services. She would tell those who looked to her for a healing ... MARGO MONG Mike had a wife and her name was Terri. She came before me, and I knew that. That was just that. Not... JODI SCHIAVO J.M. BARRIE Charlotte Church is our Woman of the Year simply because she is larger than life, ... She might not ... DYLAN JONES CHARLIZE THERON It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-e... ELLEN MUTH GASTON LEROUX BRIDGIT MENDLER D.H. LAWRENCE EDWARD ABBEY JERRY LEWIS I had great pity on Ansje, because she always acted very happy, but I believed that it was really a ... DIET EMAN
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BILL WHARTON The risk of anyone else being positive for it is very low. BILL WHARTON The board has told Mr. Boyd that they much appreciate all of his services. Unfortunately, his positi... BILL WHARTON He also has very good stroke mechanics, and much like Molly doesn't like to lose. They have it in th... DAVE WHARTON Until there's a selection, NAB is not commenting. DENNIS WHARTON This is only a piece of the solution, and represents a transparent attempt by both cable operators a... DENNIS WHARTON At the convention we've got almost 113,000 people from all walks of communication. The industry now ... 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. DENNIS WHARTON Most people would recognize that broadcast programming is far less explicit in terms of sex and viol... DENNIS WHARTON We're going into a tough part of our season. We've got five tough games coming up, starting with Cri... BRUCE WHARTON If we play that hard, with that intensity, we can be in most games. Even if we had lost this game, I... BRUCE WHARTON I think we kind of let up defensively. The first quarter we played full man-to-man. The guys maybe g... BRUCE WHARTON The request and reservation forms are available online on our Web site. DAVE WHARTON She's very talented. She can work hard and she loves to race. She loves the relays and loves being p... 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... 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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
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assu... 
Chess lied to herself every day; it was just something she did, like taking her pills or making sure... 
Adieu! she cries; and waved her lily hand. 
there were moments throughout the whole day when she had to shake herself because she found her thou... 
You looked strange climbing in the tree like that."
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Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite feeling. Pardon the seeming ... 
She has not one particle of vanity in her. She covers her scars because they disturb others. No othe... 
When she reentered the color-rich woods, she smelled human again, but not the farmer. No, it was sur... 
My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... 
If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because eith... 
She wanted to be true to herself... and she had a lot of demons because of it. I think her sexuality... 
The insistent drums were an unwelcome reminder of the existence of another world, wholly autonomous,... 
Mary approaches her before she is able to reach her station. "Hello Lily. Get anything special for C... 
Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection i... 
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to br... 
But the more Emma recognised her love, the more she crushed it down, that it might not be evident, t... 
She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundam... 
Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she wr... 
The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believ... 
Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?"
I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got ... 
She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had ge... 
Incredulity and indifference were her only reaction: incredulity, because she could not conceive of ... 
She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which ... 
She was surprised because she was Emily, and she did not share Jonathan's frank assessment of cowork... 
She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a co... 
She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. 
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It was then that she cut him off in midsentence and said that it was over. She said it with a certai... 
And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she ... 
Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one whi... 
She saw how he was staring at it, the bright red hue beneath her bonnet. She could not bear to see t... 
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She has a wisdom beyond her years. But what I love about her most is that she is a girl. Her playful... 
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Astrid had gone to look at the burn zone. Doing the right thing.
Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did... 
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When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she ha... 
You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely remi... 
She did believe in God. And she believed that Jane was with him. And suddenly her pain and grief bec... 
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She had thought she'd already reached her capacity for pain and had no room inside her for more. But... 
Peter,' she asked, trying to speak firmly, 'what are your exact feelings for me?'
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Then I made her understand that, where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for he... 
I love Beyonce. She's so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music. 
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There was this tendency to drift. And yet when she thought about it, what did she really want to d... 
You want to know why Barbra Streisand is so difficult? Because she's brilliant. She's a bril... 
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As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the fac... 
What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th... 
I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age. 
The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it th... 
All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself... 
A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community un... 
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever... 
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. 
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki... 