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A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere.


Edith Hamilton

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EDITH WHARTON Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli...
EDITH WHARTON When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
EDITH EVANS The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have ...
EDITH SITWELL In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluoresce...
EDITH WIDDER Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'M...
EDITH HEAD I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think migh...
EDITH WIDDER Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,'...
EDITH PEARLMAN After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri...
EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
EDITH WHARTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
EDITH WHARTON As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ...
EDITH STEIN All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
EDITH PEARLMAN An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON