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A closed mind is a dying mind. — Edna Ferber

Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost. — Edna O'Brien

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic. — Edna Ferber

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. — Edna O'Brien

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends
It gives a lovely light! — Edna St. Vincent Millay

O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard,
Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye. — Edna O'Brien

But you were something more than young and sweet
And fair, - and the long year remembers you. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time ... — Edna O'Brien

So many that had died on the scaffold and many more to die including, though she did not know it then, her own son. — Edna O'Brien

All my life,
Following Care along the dusty road,
Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed ... — Edna St. Vincent Millay

It's not the error in the book, it's the thought that counts. — Edna Stewart

When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! I had you and I have you now no more. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant. — Edna O'Brien

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things. — Edna O'Brien

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself. After all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. — Dame Edna Everage

And he whose soul is flat
the sky Will cave in on him by and by. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The breath of dying lilies haunted the twilight air. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Don't ever underestimate the capacity of a human being who is determined to do something. — Edna Adan Ismail

Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it. — Edna Buchanan

Death devours all lovely things;
Lesbia with her sparrow
Shares the darkness
presently
Every bed is narrow. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The younger generation forms a country of its own. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Night falls fast. Today is the past. — John Green

Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Prisoner
All right,
Go ahead!
What's in a name?
I guess I'll be locked into
As much as I'm locked out of! — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern. — Edna Ferber

In the bodily garden the apple lurks. — Edna O'Brien

You might have written. Every bit of your daily life interests me. I wrote this day fortnight but it was returned. Tampered with. — Edna O'Brien

I had not the heart to tell her that great love stories told of the pain and separateness between men and women. — Edna O'Brien

I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Flaubert claimed that we each have a royal room in our hearts into which only very few are admitted. — Edna O'Brien

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna. — Miranda Richardson

She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear. — Kate Chopin

There is no such thing as a beauty contest . . . Beauty is noncompetitive. Beauty of any kind stands alone, unmatched, inimitable, uncontested. — Edna Robinson

We hide the truer part of ourselves when we love. — Edna O'Brien

There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games. — Edna O'Brien

Second Fig
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand! — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Luck favors the prepared." -Louis Pasteur . . . but actually for me, Edna from The Incredibles. At least I admitted it. — Mike Gullickson

Guns have no eyes, no friends. You never know if they'll protect your life or take it. — Edna Buchanan

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight. — 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

I'm going to walk out and bang the door hard — Edna

It's not love's going hurts my days
But that it went in little ways. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Where would we be without the success of our mothers? — Edna Stewart

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give. — Edna O'Brien

Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay. — Kurt Vonnegut

Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical. — Edna Longley

Without music I should wish to die. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst. — Edna Buchanan

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

I'm not much to look at", replied Elizabeth, "but I'm beautiful inside. — Edna Ferber

Greens are a dish that most Southerners would walk a mile for. — Edna Lewis

My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts. — Edna O'Brien

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. — Edna O'Brien

Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Friends are family you choose. — Edna Buchanan

Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before — Edna St. Vincent Millay

He that would eat of love must eat it where it hangs. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

And her voice is a string of colored beads,
Or steps leading into the sea. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Writing is like carrying a fetus. — Edna O'Brien

That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open. — Edna O'Brien

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

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

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway. — Edna Buchanan

For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert. — Edna O'Brien

I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes. — Edna Buchanan

Go out, go out I beg of you And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the miracle of the earth With all the wonder of a child. — Edna Jaques

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin — Edna O'Brien

I will come back to you, I swear I will;
And you will know me still.
I shall be only a little taller
Than when I went. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Take up the song; forget the epitaph. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sweat and blood and health and youth go into every cabbage. Did you know that, Julie? One doesn't despise them as food, knowing that. — Edna Ferber

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Man has never been the same since God died. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late. — Edna Ferber

Life isn't all beer and skittles; few of us have touched a skittle in years. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

We have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey? — Edna O'Brien

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

I screamed, and
lo!
Infinity
Came down and settled over me — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Wherever there were horses or ponies the mushrooms always sprang up. — Edna O'Brien

Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Dilly reckons it would be difficult to thread those needles, the eyes so small, especially with her cataracts. — Edna O'Brien

As one looks with the beautiful eyes upon a soul ... Only God is perfect — Edna Stewart

But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it. — Edna Ferber

What matters is the imaginative truth. — Edna O'Brien

I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor. — Edna Buchanan