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Quote by Edith Wharton
There are moments when a mans imagination, so easily subdued to wh

There are moments when a mans imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. – Edith Wharton

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There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries. – Edith Wharton

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Banks / Banking
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Edith Wharton
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People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. – Edith Wharton

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The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece. – Gilbert Murray

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My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

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Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that its real. – Joel Kinnaman

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One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. Were not scientists. We dont always have to make the logical, reasonable leap. – Stella Adler

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