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Edna Ferber has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do…
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned,…
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It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
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In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker,…
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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?
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I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination,…
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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…
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A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more…
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But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
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The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the…
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What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they…
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The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love,…
— Martin Luther
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Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.
— Victor LaValle
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By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure…
— Pascal Bruckner
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O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring…
— Abdul-Qadir Gilani
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Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.
— Unknown Author
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Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure
— Fanny Burney
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In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.
— Anne Boleyn
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Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.
— Fanny Burney
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It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for…
— Abraham Lincoln
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