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The Choice: Embrace the Possible

by Edith Eger (Goodreads Author)

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McKenna’s Quotes

“She had several times been in love with fortunes or careers, but only once with a man.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

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“she always paid for her rare indiscretions by a violent reaction of prudence.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

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“When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

tags: culture, desperation, input

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“We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

tags: beauty, edith-wharton, fashion, the-house-of-mirth, women

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“I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

tags: excellence, fads, fashion, timelessness, tradition

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