Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.Edna Ferber
America rather, the United States seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly quick-witted, lavish, colorful given to extravagant speech and gestures its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless swarming in Fords, in ocean liners craving entertainment volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world.
Edna Ferber
Roast Beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrTes, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, medium, is safe and sane, and sure.
Edna Ferber
Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.
Edna Ferber
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. . . . But amusing Never.
Edna Ferber
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna Ferber
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It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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