Joshua

“Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“She sang, of course, "M'ama!" and not "he loves me," since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“...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.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence