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

#art #been #before #common #doing

She had always thought of love as something confused and furtive, and he made it as bright and open as the summer air. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#love

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#age

I felt there was no one as kind as you; no one who gave me reasons that I understood for doing what at first seemed so hard and--unnecessary. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#love #age

Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to ↗

— Edith Wharton

#learning #age

Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#folly #wisdom #age

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#age

Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend! ↗

— Edith Wharton

#hypocrisy #new-york #pulitzer-prize #social-criticism #age

...but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... ("Afterward") ↗

— Edith Wharton

#countryside #rural #rural-life #life

I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#life