The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

—Edith Wharton

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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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

—Edith Wharton

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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

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

—Edith Wharton

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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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

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

—e. e. cummings

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

—Dr. Thomas Fuller

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

—Dorothy Parker

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

—Donald Trump

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

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