Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.
Edith WhartonDialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.
Edith WhartonAfter all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton