9 Quotes of ‘Edith Wharton’


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Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930.

Edith Wharton

9 Quotes of Edith Wharton :

1. There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
2. Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
3. I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author’s political views.
4. The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
5. After all, one knows one’s weak points so well, that it’s rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
6. When people ask for time, it’s always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn’t take half as long to say.
7. Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
8. I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
9. He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

By Shweta Tiwari

 


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