Late Quote by Edna Ferber

“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.”

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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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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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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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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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

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