Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

—Edith Wharton

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About Edith Wharton

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Edith Newbold Wharton (; née Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win...

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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

—Edith Wharton

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

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In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

—Edith Wharton

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

—Edith Wharton

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My little dog—a heartbeat at my feet.

—Edith Wharton

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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

—Ambrose Bierce

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Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.

—Peter Borden

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For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.

—Gloria Borger

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

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The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

—Arthur Koestler

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