Edith Wharton Writer
- Gender: Female
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Jan 24, 1862
- Died: Aug 11, 1937
Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
experience & wisdom
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
aging, death & freedom
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
art
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
inspirational
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
being good & time
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
money