Edith Wharton Quotes
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.
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And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
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There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.
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Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.
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Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
