"Life can't defeat a writer who is in……" — Edna Ferber
"Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death."
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39 Quotes by Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber has 39 quotes on this site.
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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…
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful,…
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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…
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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…
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I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment,…
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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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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it…
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But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
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More Death Quotes
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
— Hannah Arendt
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating…
— Giorgio Armani
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every…
— J. J. Abrams
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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