Edith Wharton: Doing

Edith Wharton was American novelist, short story writer, designer. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“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 book Ethan Frome

Source: Ethan Frome

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

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”

Edith Wharton

The Writing of Fiction (1925), ch. I

“The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 34