Book Quote by Edna Ferber

“Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.”

Edna Ferber

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People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

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It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

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It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.

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The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

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All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like…

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It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few…

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Now gae your wa'sTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunthe case sae hard is, Amang the writers and…

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But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.

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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, passionate remonstrance,…

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“Then there were long, lazy summer afternoons when there was nothing to do but read. And dream. And watch the town go by to supper. I think that is why our great men and women so often have sprung from small towns, or villages. They have had time to dream in their adolescence. No cars to catch, no matinees, no…

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