Edna Ferber Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

  Frustration, Clouds, Irritation

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• 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

  Intelligent, Ought, Ifs

  Edna Ferber (1962). “Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life”

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

  Edna Ferber

  Wheels, Ends, Fixed

  Edna Ferber (1941). “Saratoga Crunk”

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

  Edna Ferber

  Travel, Sound, Different

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Gigolo”, p.167, Booklassic

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• Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

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  Nerves, Use, Way

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

  Edna Ferber

  Self Confidence, People, Arrogance

  Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”

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• Men often marry their mothers.

  Edna Ferber

  Mother, Men

  Edna Ferber (1941). “Saratoga Crunk”

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

  Edna Ferber

  Helping, Compulsion

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• Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.

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  Philosophy, Food, Beef

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney”, p.2, Booklassic

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

  Edna Ferber

  Texas, Way, Easier

  Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”

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

  Edna Ferber

  Names, People, Giving

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will do, cloudless if possible.

  Edna Ferber

  Wall, Writing, Views

  Edna Ferber (2014). “A Kind of Magic: An Autobiography”, p.78, Vintage

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• I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Years, Done

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Thinking, Order

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

  Edna Ferber

  Baseball, Games, Doe

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Buttered Side Down”, p.37, Booklassic

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• 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

  Life, Past, Hands

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.

  Edna Ferber

  Feelings, Seasons

  Edna Ferber (2005). “Roast Beef Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations.

  Edna Ferber

  Wine, Men, Europe

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Gigolo”, p.58, Booklassic

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• Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

  Edna Ferber

  Oklahoma, States, Happened

  Edna Ferber (1962). “Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life”

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

  Edna Ferber

  Rich, Poor, Social

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

  Edna Ferber

  Way, Jew, Felt

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

  Edna Ferber

  Women, Memorable, Sight

  Edna Ferber (2014). “A Kind of Magic: An Autobiography”, p.159, Vintage

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

  Edna Ferber

  Memorable, Writing, Serenity

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• 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

  Vitality, Batteries, Sparks

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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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.

  Edna Ferber

  Cutting, Literature, Becoming

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