Edna Ferber
Novelist
1885-08-15
Quotes by Edna Ferber
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Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.
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Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
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Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.
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Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
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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.
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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.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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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.
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But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
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There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.
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I want you to realize that this whole thing is just a grand adventure. A fine show. The trick is to play in it and look at it at the same time.
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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.
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The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
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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 fooling around with paper dolls when you could be playing with a real live baby.
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