He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.

Edith Wharton

Simply Carry Vision Earth

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...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Edith Wharton

Lived Contrasts Death Beware

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I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.

Edith Wharton

Screw Life Machine Dropped

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I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.

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It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

Edith Wharton

Easy Woman Man Love

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I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.

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Lonely Afraid Emptiness Darkness

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There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

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Nothing Grimmer Tragedy Wears

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The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

Edith Wharton

Taste Cinders Mouth Moments

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Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

Edith Wharton

Generous Ideas Illusions Truths

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He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

Edith Wharton

Known Love Caresses Feeds

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

Edith Wharton

Seemed Happiness Surprised Butterfly

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I can't love you unless I give you up.

Edith Wharton

Love Give You Up

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

Edith Wharton

Think Money Great Deal

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There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

Edith Wharton

Trying Emancipate Wife Dimmest-notion

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

Edith Wharton

True Originality New-manner Vision

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It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness

Edith Wharton

Mortifying Believe Unpopular

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Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

Edith Wharton

Poetry Art Breath Life

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What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Edith Wharton

Shame Nation Developing Beauty

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He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.

Edith Wharton

Arms Face Wet-flower Lips

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We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.

Edith Wharton

Live Souls Umapped-region

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...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

Edith Wharton

Wondering Clever Liars Cleverest

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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.

Edith Wharton

Deal Once Parked Regret

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Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.

Edith Wharton

Dilated Atmosphere Luxury Climate

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Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

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Failure Useful Success

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It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

Edith Wharton

Happiness Missed Lived-on

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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Wharton

Life Real Counselor Wisdom

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Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Edith Wharton

Little Addicted Moments Welcome

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We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?

Edith Wharton

Hurt Wanted

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They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars

Edith Wharton

Gloom Spruces Empty-world Glimmering

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..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

Edith Wharton

Husband Wife Breakable Prosperity

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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

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About Am Hate I Am

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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

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Afford Basically Books Britain

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Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

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Almost Any Been Book

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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

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Act Any Being Concept

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Blank Blank Page Enjoy Freedom

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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

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Exhausted Feel Friendships Guys

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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

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Because Fiction Like More

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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

Irvine Welsh

About Arts Because Business

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I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

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Almost Beat Best Best Way

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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

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Always Because Circumstance Extreme

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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

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Any Around Became Cannot

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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

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The first job of a writer is to be honest.

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First First Job Honest Job

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There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

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Kind Mysticism Writing There

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What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

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8803 Writer Quotes

He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.

Edith Wharton

...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.

Edith Wharton

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

Edith Wharton

I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.

Edith Wharton

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

Edith Wharton

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

Edith Wharton

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

I can't love you unless I give you up.

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

Edith Wharton

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

Edith Wharton

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness

Edith Wharton

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

Edith Wharton

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.

Edith Wharton

...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

Edith Wharton

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

Edith Wharton

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

Edith Wharton

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Wharton

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars

Edith Wharton

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

Edith Wharton

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

Irvine Welsh

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

Irvine Welsh

Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

Irvine Welsh

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh

I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

Irvine Welsh

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

Irvine Welsh

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Irvine Welsh

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

Irvine Welsh

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Irvine Welsh

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

Irvine Welsh