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Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling. — Edna Ferber

A closed mind is a dying mind. — Edna Ferber

I like any place that isn't here. — Edna Ferber

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

A closed country is a dying country... A closed mind is a dying mind.' from a radio broadcast in 1947 — Edna Ferber

A placated bully is a hand-fed bully. — Edna Ferber

The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy. — Edna Ferber

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

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics. — Edna Ferber

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

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours. — Edna Ferber

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. — Edna Ferber

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has. — Edna Ferber

You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself. — Edna Ferber

You can run, but what are you running from? Your life? You can't run away from your life. — Edna Ferber

[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie. — Dorothy Parker

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. — Edna Ferber

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus. — Edna Ferber

Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death. — Edna Ferber

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

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history. — Edna Ferber

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

The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons. — Edna Ferber

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. — Edna Ferber

Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew. — Edna Ferber

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

A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently the result is a short circuit. — 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

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

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

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy. — Edna Ferber

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

Celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em. — 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

Death-bed promises should be broken as lightly as they are seriously made.
-The Gay Old Dog — Edna Ferber

There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak. — Edna Ferber

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't. — Edna Ferber

A woman can look both moral and exciting ... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. — Edna Ferber

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it? — Edna Ferber

Men often marry their mothers. — Edna Ferber

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

It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time. — Edna Ferber

People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand. — Edna Ferber

There are ... just two kinds of girls. Those who go down town Saturday nights, and those who don't. — Edna Ferber

There's no sauce for play like work. — 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

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

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

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

I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way. — Edna Ferber

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Women] ... is nothin' but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up. — Edna Ferber

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

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

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

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

Jane Austen. Anyway, I'm not — Edna Ferber

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

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

That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit. — Edna Ferber

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. — Edna Ferber

Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul. — Edna Ferber

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it. — 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

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't. — Edna Ferber

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets. — Edna Ferber

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

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. — Edna Ferber