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The past-that-might-have-been, and the future-that-was-to-be, stretched behind and before her, as is strangely often the case when we are listening to music.

Edna Ferber

It was part of the Texas ritual. We're rich as son-of-a-bitch stew but look how homely we are, just as plain-folksy as Grandpappy back in 1836. We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

Edna Ferber

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

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

Edna Ferber

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.

Edna Ferber

The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.

Edna Ferber

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.

Edna Ferber

I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.

Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber

Born: August 15, 1885

Died: April 16, 1968 (aged 82)

Bio: Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big, Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant.

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