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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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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her…
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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
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It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
— Winston Churchill
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The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality…
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It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool…
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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
— Plutarch
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
— Alexander Pope
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It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our…
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Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.
— Joan Blades
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A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in…
— Jack Kerouac
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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine…
— Wallace Stevens
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They all knew this, but this didn't stop them from good-naturedly crowding around the front door every time it opened, every single…
— Jacqueline Kelly
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