Childlike wonder Quote by Edna Ferber

““It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.””

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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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Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

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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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I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are destroying the…

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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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“The trick to being an adult is maintaining that childlike wonder while still managing to do soul-killing things like paying bills.”

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A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

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You can't have a bad time at Disney World. It's not allowed. They have hidden electronic surveillance cameras everywhere, and if they catch you…

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