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Edna Ferber Quotes and Sayings
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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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“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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“In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.”
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“Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.”
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“Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.”
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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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“Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.”
-- Edna Ferber
