"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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"There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.“
-Edith Wharton
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"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
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"Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue."
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"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
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"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it."
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"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
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"A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
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