Edith Wharton Quotes
To James's intimates, however, these elaborate hesitancies, far from being an obstacle, were like a cobweb bridge flung from his mind to theirs, an invisible passage over which one knew that silver-footed ironies, veiled jokes, tiptoe malices, were stealing to explode a huge laugh at one's feet.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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Thinking differently is my strength.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?'
Duncan Jones
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Done right, precision can help clarify, plus it's fun.
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Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!
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To James's intimates, however, these elaborate hesitancies, far from being an obstacle, were like a cobweb bridge flung from his mind to theirs, an invisible passage over which one knew that silver-footed ironies, veiled jokes, tiptoe malices, were stealing to explode a huge laugh at one's feet.
Edith Wharton