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Edna Ferber quotes

American Novelist August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968

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Edna Ferber quote: "Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for..."
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death. Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber quote: "Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for..."
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. Edna Ferber
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
Edna Ferber quote: "Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost..."
Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to. Edna Ferber
He sat looking down at his hands--his fine strong unscarred hands. Suddenly and unreasonably he thought of another pair of hands--his mother's--with the knuckles enlarged, the skin broken--expressive--her life written on them. Scars. She had them. Edna Ferber
For equipment she had youth, curiosity, a steel strong frame...four hundred ninety-seven dollars; and a gay adventuresome spirit that was never to die, though it led her into curious places and she often found, at the end, only a trackless waste from which she had to retrace her steps, painfully. But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and Burgundy, crysoprase and porphyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that. Edna Ferber
But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that. Edna Ferber
Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated..., and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character," Selina said. Edna Ferber
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
Many earnest young writers with a flow of adjectives and a passion for detail have attempted to describe the quiet of a great city at night, when a few million people within it are sleeping, or ought to be. They work in the clang of a distant owl car, and the roar of an occasional "L" train, and the hollow echo of the footsteps of the late passer-by. They go elaborately into description, and are strong on the brooding hush, but the thing has never been done satisfactorily. Edna Ferber
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber quote: "Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling."
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling. Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber quote: "Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really..."
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber quote: "If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in,..."
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics. Edna Ferber
Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature. Edna Ferber

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