Edna Ferber Short Quotes

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This wasn't conversation. This was oral death...

Edna Ferber
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

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

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The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

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Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

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Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.

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Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.

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The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

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

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Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.

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

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

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She was more than a merely good cook; she was an alchemist in food stuffs.

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Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

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She never gave up hope of stiffening the spine of the invertebrate Hermie.

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'Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.'

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Gussie's mother was a real mother — the kind that wakes up when you come home.

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Here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

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If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.

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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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But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.

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A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.

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A life like this develops the comedy sense. You can't play tragedy while you're living it.

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

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It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.

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Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.

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Don't you believe 'em when they say that what you don't know won't hurt you. Biggest lie ever was.

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Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love — or tries to.

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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.

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