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Э́дит Уо́ртон , урождённая Эдит Ньюболд Джонс — американская писательница и дизайнер, лауреат Пулитцеровской премии. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Январь 1862 – 11. Август 1937   •   Другие имена Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
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“I can't love you unless I give you up.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

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

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

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Источник: The Age of Innocence

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

Edith Wharton книга The House of Mirth

Источник: "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

“How I hate everything!”

Edith Wharton Summer

Источник: Summer

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

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.”

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?”

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.”

"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.”

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

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

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

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