The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
Edith Wharton
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GARRETT GRAVESEN I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite...
KEN FOLLETT He was most definitely one of the guys who got the wheels going. The advantage he had was that no on...
ALLEN WALLACE Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing...
EDITH WHARTON Jane Heard.
ONE I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyon...
KATE JACKSON It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have ...
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CHARLOTTE CURTIS It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
GARY KEMP To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this p...
BILL SIENKIEWICZ It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all o...
CALVIN COOLIDGE In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all o...
CALVIN COOLIDGE To live with a guilt not doing the duty is the worst self punishment.
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DAVE ATTELL I'm not living for when I have a Number One record or when I make a million trillion dollars. I&...
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JACK ANTONOFF The present moment is the only one that matters, and what you are doing right now is as delightful a...
VICTOR SHAMAS I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for i...
MAE WHITMAN I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
MAE WHITMAN The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's...
CAM When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. ...
IMANI HAKIM Henry James and Edith Wharton are huge for me because they gave me a way to understand America while...
CLAIRE MESSUD A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that yo...
KARA DIOGUARDI I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, ...
FEDERICO FELLINI Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.
JOHN IRVING If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
KATE BALDWIN He is doing dives that no one else in the state does.
BILL LAPMAN One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own res...
WOLE SOYINKA I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater studen...
AASIF MANDVI I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever...
JAMES LIPTON The number of procedures that he was performing at one hospital in particular (Lourdes), greatly exc...
JAMES RYAN There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices o...
PATRICK WARBURTON That's the worst of acting on principle, one begins thinking of one's attitude instead of the use of...
HARLEY GRANVILLE BARKER I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else...
DAVID TALBOT At the end of the day, it seems like there's a critic archetype for food movies, like with '...
JON FAVREAU I made a record in 1996 called 'Animal Rights' that was a very difficult, very dark punk-roc...
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SANDRA LEE I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valenti...
GABRIELLA WILDE But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it.
And next year someone...
MELINA MARCHETTA One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
GABRIELLE ROY The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN one of the worst hospital scenes I have seen in my 20 years of doing humanitarian relief.
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MISSY ELLIOTT When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was...
NEIL STRAUSS I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
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LARRY BARNETT One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doi...
HALDAN KEFFER HARTLINE It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and ...
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DMX It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.
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PETER SCHIFF There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolutio...
ANDRE MALRAUX He was never verbal about it until it was so clear he had such a talent I couldn't picture him doing...
CLIFF FINCH Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome thing...
ADAM PALLY My hat's off to Chris for doing that. That was one hell of a streak.
CURTIS HAGGINS I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make o...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I caught everybody off guard and ended up winning that one. I'm not really sure what everybody else ...
ERIC WEINRICH It was my worst offensive game ever. I was getting a little bit frustrated. Not anything they were d...
SOPHIA YOUNG Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you'r...
FINN WITTROCK Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
RALPH BAKSHI I'm not aware of anyone else doing anything like this.
LORA GERNON The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcom...
CHUCK YEAGER One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' t...
TOBIN BELL When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'...
EDDIE MARSAN In the early '80s, my sound - especially that mysterious kind of synthesized sound that was used...
GIORGIO MORODER One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it'...
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BILL GOLDBERG Research is the art of seeing what everyone else has seen, and doing what no-one else has done.
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SAM HUNT I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very ...
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EVELYN LAUDER It's weird because if I'm not doing anything, I get antsy. I feel like I always have to be d...
TREVOR JACKSON When it comes to everybody else's thing and their lane and their timing, I'm never doing any...
RIHANNA My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'
DANNY BONADUCE Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one ha...
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THOMAS SZASZ I don't have anything to hide. And for the record, I am not against plastic surgery. I believe t...
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SANTIGOLD There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free.
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
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EDITH WHARTON He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
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 Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to br...
EDITH WHARTON 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...
EDITH WHARTON I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the ame...
EDITH WHARTON 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...
EDITH WHARTON 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...
EDITH WHARTON An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
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EDITH WHARTON Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet...
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EDITH WHARTON My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a...
EDITH WHARTON 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 I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth...
EDITH WHARTON 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.
EDITH WHARTON ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all...
EDITH WHARTON Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli...
EDITH WHARTON After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri...
EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
EDITH WHARTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
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EDITH WHARTON There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.
EDITH WHARTON A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definition...
EDITH WHARTON There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that i...
EDITH WHARTON Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a par...
EDITH WHARTON If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth...
EDITH WHARTON Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be in...
EDITH WHARTON Everything about her was both vigorous and exquisite.
EDITH WHARTON My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet
EDITH WHARTON There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.
EDITH WHARTON As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in it...
EDITH WHARTON Each time you happen to me all over again.
EDITH WHARTON ...but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of ...
EDITH WHARTON Silence may be as variously shaded as speech
EDITH WHARTON It seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, even if breakable in prosperity, should be i...
EDITH WHARTON My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a...
EDITH WHARTON If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON Though he turned the pages with the sensuous joy of the book-lover, he did not know what he was read...
EDITH WHARTON The mere idea of a woman's appealing to her family to screen her husband's business dishonour was in...
EDITH WHARTON It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look fo...
EDITH WHARTON But marriage is a one long sacrifice.
EDITH WHARTON They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods
EDITH WHARTON There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises abo...
EDITH WHARTON His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness h...
EDITH WHARTON I feel that each case must be judged individually, on its own merits ... irrespective of stupid conv...
EDITH WHARTON In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or do...
EDITH WHARTON There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce th...
EDITH WHARTON Xingu!" she scoffed. "Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unpre...
EDITH WHARTON She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
EDITH WHARTON 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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EDITH WHARTON My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.
EDITH WHARTON Once or twice, in the first days of his marriage, he had asked himself with a slight shiver what wou...
EDITH WHARTON Проблема с принятыми сгоряча решениями в том, что на др...
EDITH WHARTON The blast that swept him came off New Hampshire snow-fields and ice-hung forests. It seemed to have ...
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EDITH WHARTON All the girls feared their Father less than they did their Mother, because she sometimes remembered ...
EDITH WHARTON Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?
EDITH WHARTON Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with h...
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EDITH WHARTON If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual ...
EDITH WHARTON If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
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EDITH WHARTON The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can e...
EDITH WHARTON ...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Ameri...
EDITH WHARTON refurbished that image of herself in other minds which was her only notion of self-seeing
EDITH WHARTON She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was b...
EDITH WHARTON She seemed always to have seen him through a blur - first of sleepiness, then of distance and indiff...
EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
EDITH WHARTON As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comfor...
EDITH WHARTON ...they who exchange their independence for the sweet name of Wife must be prepared to find all is n...
EDITH WHARTON The patch of lawn before it had relapsed into a hayfield; but to the left an overgrown box-garden fu...
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
old self rejects you, and...
EDITH WHARTON And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.
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EDITH WHARTON Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.
EDITH WHARTON It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assu...
EDITH WHARTON Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing...
EDITH WHARTON She had given him all she had - but what was it compared to the other gifts life held for him? She u...
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...
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.
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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.
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DAVE WHARTON Molly had a great day and really stood out.
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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.
EDITH WIDDER Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a ...
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