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Edith Wharton è stata una scrittrice statunitense.

✵ 24. Gennaio 1862 – 11. Agosto 1937   •   Altri nomi Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
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“Le buttò indietro la testa per mettere in risalto la curva del collo e prese a baciarla sotto l'orecchio, sui capelli, sugli occhi e sulle labbra. La ragazza gli si aggrappò disperatamente e, mentre Harney l'attirava sulle ginocchia, ebbe la sensazione di essere risucchiata insieme a lui in un abisso senza fondo.”

Edith Wharton

cap. XIV, p. 123
Estate

“L'illusione di poter coltivare un'amicizia era svanita e la scena avvenuta al molo, in tutta la sua meschina volgarità, aveva gettato una luce di verità sul suo attimo di follia. Le pareva che le parole del suo tutore avessero messo a nudo di fronte alla folla ghignante i segreti tormenti della sua coscienza.”

Edith Wharton

cap. XI, p. 94
Estate

“Mentre ogni altro pensiero si faceva sempre più confuso e irreale fino a ridursi a quell'incerto baluginio che assume il mondo per chi ci vede poco, la presenza del signor Royall prese a stagliarsi su quello sfondo indistinto con la salda robustezza di una roccia. Aveva sempre pensato a lui, come a un essere odioso che le intralciava il cammino, ma che poteva sconfiggere e domare, a suo piacimento. Solo una volta, il giorno della cerimonia, mentre i frammenti sparsi del suo discorso fluttuavano nella sua mente sconvolta, aveva intuito la presenza di un altro essere, un essere assai diverso dal nemico ottuso con cui divideva la sua vita, che, oltre la nebbia infuocata dei suoi sogni, si stagliava innanzi a lei con sorprendente precisione. Allora per un attimo le sue parole e il tono con cui le aveva pronunciate le avevano fatto intuire perché l'avesse sempre giudicato un uomo solitario. Ma ben presto la nebbia del sogno l'aveva nascosto di nuovo, facendole dimenticare quella fuggevole impressione.”

Edith Wharton

cap. XVIII, p. 158
Estate

“Ci sono due modi di diffondere luce: essere la candela oppure essere lo specchio che la riflette.”

Edith Wharton

da Vesalius in Zante, in Clifford Pickover, Surfing through Hyperspace, p. 118

“La felicità è un'opera d'arte. Trattatela con cura.”

Edith Wharton

da Il canto delle muse, traduzione di Marta Morazzoni, Corbaccio

“Il mattino seguente il sole sorse su un mondo nuovo. Oddo doveva partire allo spuntar del giorno e l'alba lo sorprese alla finestra, mentre col pensiero la vedeva dispiegarsi e tuttavia non ancora del tutto visibile nell'estremo barlume delle stelle.”

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da La valle della decisione

“Il caldo si era fatto soffocante… Charity lo sentiva calare su di sé in ondate avvampanti, finché il mare dei volti in sala cominciò a danzare davanti ai suoi occhi come le immagini proiettate sullo schermo, in quel cinema di Nettleton. Per un attimo il viso del signor Royall spiccò nella confusione generale. L'uomo aveva ripreso il suo posto davanti all'armonium e la fissava con una tale intensità da darle l'impressione che quello sguardo fosse riuscito a penetrare fino al centro delle sue sensazioni confuse…”

Edith Wharton

cap. XIII, p. 115
Estate

“Be', stammi bene a sentire. Quel che mi preme è sei vuoi sposarmi. Il resto non mi interessa. Arrivato alla mia età, un uomo sa distinguere quello che conta da quello che non conta; è l'unico vantaggio di invecchiare.”

Edith Wharton

cap. XVII, p. 155
proposta di matrimonio
Estate

Edith Wharton: Frasi in inglese

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

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 18

“Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears.'
Well, she has opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say she blinds people. What she does is the contrary-she fastens their eyelids open, so they're never again in the blessed darkness.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence

“It was the old New York way of taking life "without effusion of blood": the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes," except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 33

“Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed.”

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Origine: The Age of Innocence

“They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.”

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Edith Wharton libro The House of Mirth

Origine: The House of Mirth

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

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence

“And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them…”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence

“Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.”

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Origine: The Age of Innocence

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

You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe.”

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Edith Wharton libro The House of Mirth

Origine: The House of Mirth

“Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your
old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart”

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Edith Wharton libro The House of Mirth

Origine: The House of Mirth

“Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence

“Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence

“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.”

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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.”

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Edith Wharton libro The House of Mirth

Origine: The House of Mirth

“No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.”

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Edith Wharton libro The House of Mirth

Origine: "The House of Mirth" http://books.google.com/books?id=plFdLlYHwZ8C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=No+insect+hangs+its+nest+on+threads+as+frail+as+those+which+will+sustain+the+weight+of+human+vanity.&source=bl&ots=j0EPPhjIZW&sig=MQMjyNy5yKK97Ok4bGqRWfC3obE&hl=en&ei=T5F0TMqyMIuisAOczpyMBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=No%20insect%20hangs%20its%20nest%20on%20threads%20as%20frail%20as%20those%20which%20will%20sustain%20the%20weight%20of%20human%20vanity.&f=false (1905), ch. X, pg. 69

“Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.”

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Origine: Xingu and other Stories

“How I hate everything!”

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Edith Wharton Summer

Origine: Summer

“She had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for it all.”

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Edith Wharton libro Ethan Frome

Origine: Ethan Frome

“… It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence

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

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“I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author’s political views.”

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Letter to Upton Sinclair (19 August 1927)

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

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The House of Mirth http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/hmirt10.txt (1905), bk.1, ch. 6

“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe,
Old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.”

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Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road" http://www.bartleby.com/142/82., 12, Leaves of Grass (1855)
Misattributed

“Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?”

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Nadine Gordimer, "The Essential Gesture: Writers and Responsibility" http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/gordimer85.pdf, The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, University of Michigan (12 October 1984), p. 9
Misattributed

“There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.”

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"A First Word"
A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934)

“Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.”

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"Xingu" http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/books/xingu.htm (1911), from Xingu and Other Stories (1916)

“When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.”

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The Children http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400741.txt (1928), ch. XXV

“In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Origine: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 31

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