Sunday 13 August 2017

August 15: Edna Ferber

This date in 1887 saw the birth of Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist and playwright Edna Ferber.


  1. 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.
  2. Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
  3. Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
  4. A closed mind is a dying mind.
  5. It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
  6. Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
  7. Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
  8. If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.
  9. Home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.
  10. About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad.


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