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.
- Edith Wharton
Political, Enough, Author, Spite
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
- Edith Wharton
Destiny, Level, Lives, Surveys
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
- Edith Wharton
Mother, Beware, Monotony, Deadly
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
- Edith Wharton
New York, New, Itself, Diploma
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
- Edith Wharton
Mind, American, Background, Foreground
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
- Edith Wharton
Regrets, Deal, Once, Inarticulate
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
- Edith Wharton
Habits, Necessary, Having, Incessantly
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
- Edith Wharton
Death, Old, Breadth, Haughty
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton
Inspirational, Mirror, Ways, Reflects
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
- Edith Wharton
Rather, Overlook, Invent, Bewildering
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
- Edith Wharton
Deep, Tears, Subject, Probe
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
- Edith Wharton
Money, Think, Deal, Great Deal
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
- Edith Wharton
Art, Doing, Immaturity, Element
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.
- Edith Wharton
Yes, Always, Half, Letter
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
- Edith Wharton
Personal, Through, Part, Personal Experience
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
- Edith Wharton
Stop, Pretty, Pretty Good, Good Time
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
- Edith Wharton
Feather, Bed, Always, Give Me
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
- Edith Wharton
Vision, Imagination, New, Originality
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
Had, Cases, Each Time, Generally
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
- Edith Wharton
Interesting, Want, Made, Easy
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
- Edith Wharton
Break, Stiff, Hardening, Easy
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
- Edith Wharton
Doing, Apparently, Else, Duty
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
- Edith Wharton
Silence, May, Speech
What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
- Edith Wharton
Nose, Making, Use, Mysteries
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
- Edith Wharton
Ideas, Only, Air, Breathing
To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
- Edith Wharton
Face, Living, Able, Worth Living
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