Edith Wharton
1862 - 1937
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Quotes
Biography
Edith Wharton was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was born in 1862 to a wealthy and socially prominent family in New York City. Wharton is best known for her novels exploring the lives and morals of the American upper class during the Gilded Age. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921 for her novel 'The Age of Innocence.' Wharton was also a trailblazer in interior design and garden landscaping.
Famous Quotes (5)
1
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
2
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
3
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
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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.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.