Edna Ferber Quotes - Page 2

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• I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.

  Edna Ferber

  Special, Youth, Young

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• Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

  Edna Ferber

  Literature, Littles, Too Much

  Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”

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• I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.

  Edna Ferber

  Texas, Funeral, Different

  Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”

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• About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.

  Edna Ferber

  Mistake, People, Mad

  Edna Ferber (1962). “Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life”

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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 words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Reflection, Tools

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• There are two ways of doing battle against Disgrace. You may live it down; or you may run away from it and hide. The first method is heart-breaking, but sure. The second cannot be relied upon because of the uncomfortable way Disgrace has of turning up at your heels.

  Edna Ferber

  Running, Heart, Two

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Buttered Side Down”, p.12, Booklassic

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• We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth—we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.

  Edna Ferber

  Dream, Home, Soul

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Cheerful—By Request”, p.131, Booklassic

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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 land. A magic continent, a Peculiar Treasure, stuffed with riches, millions in it are starving in the midst of plenty.

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  Land, People, Magic

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

  Edna Ferber

  Hate, People, Complaining

  Edna Ferber (2014). “Great Son”, p.72, Vintage

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

  Edna Ferber

  Sheep, Goats, Busybodies

  Edna Ferber (1941). “Saratoga Crunk”

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• Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.

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  Summer, Spring, Promise

  Edna Ferber (2014). “American Beauty”, p.111, Vintage

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• I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

  Edna Ferber

  Motivational, Acceptance, Men

  1929 Cimarron, ch.23.

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• A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.

  Edna Ferber

  Bullying, Hands, Bully

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• Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

  Edna Ferber

  Life, Women, Struggle

  In R. E. Drennan Wit's End (1973)

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

  Edna Ferber

  Women, Struggle, Memorable

  1954 In Reader's Digest, Dec.

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• Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.

  Edna Ferber

  Monday, Morning, Typewriters

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.

  Edna Ferber

  Land, United States, Acres

  Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”

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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 to do it.

  Edna Ferber

  Texas, Want, Ifs

  Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”

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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 woman's work that a woman can do well.

  Edna Ferber

  Tired, Men, Hearing

  Edna Ferber (2005). “Roast Beef Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney”, p.258, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There are people who have a penchant for cities-more than that, a talent for them, a gift of sensing them, of feeling their rhythm and pulsebeats, as others have a highly developed music sense, or color reaction. It is a thing that cannot be acquired.

  Edna Ferber

  Color, Cities, People

  Edna Ferber (1917). “Fanny Herself”, p.170, Library of Alexandria

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• A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

  Edna Ferber

  Beautiful, Men, Tree

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.

  Edna Ferber

  Food, Soul, Cobblers

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Gigolo”, p.20, Booklassic

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• A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

  Edna Ferber

  Long, Waking, Hours

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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

  Edna Ferber

  Men, World, Why Me

  Edna Ferber (1962). “Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life”

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• You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.

  Edna Ferber

  Wheels, Ends, Fixed

  Edna Ferber (1941). “Saratoga Crunk”

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