After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Quote by Edith Wharton

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If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in...

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in...

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that...

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that...

There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in,...

There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in,...

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in...

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in...

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic...

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic...

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that...

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that...

There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in,...

There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in,...

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite...

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite...

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

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

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing...

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing...

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of...

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of...

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in,...

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in,...

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of...

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of...

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret...

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret...

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.