Edna Ferber Quotes

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• A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
• Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
• If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.
• America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed…
• It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
• In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings…
• Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?
• I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a…
• I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman…
• A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
• Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing,…
• But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
• There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.
• About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get…
• The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
• All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling…
• People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
• Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
• Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
• A closed mind is a dying mind.

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