"America -- rather, the United States -- seems……" — Edna Ferber
"America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world."
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Edna Ferber
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39 Quotes by Edna Ferber
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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…
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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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But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
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