Edith Wharton Quotes
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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I would love to do some theater.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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To go back means defeat.
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I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.
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Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.
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The orthopaedic surgeon said that if ever I had hip or groin pain, I should rest until the pain went. However, resting is not part of a dancer's life - so I just danced through the pain.
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The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
