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Edna Ferber was an American novelist renowned for her rich imagination and profound social insight. Her works often feature female protagonists, exploring the status and roles of women in society. Her representative works include 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Anna Karenina'.

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Famous Edna Ferber Quotes

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

People Bigs Empty Self Confidence Behave Arrogance Olympus Empty Places

Book:Giant

Source: Giant

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

People Life Hands Past Late Too Late Permit Slides Purses

Book:A Kind of Magic

Source: A Kind of Magic

“There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.”

People World Kind Two Wheat Emeralds

Book:So Big

Source: So Big

“There are people who have a penchant for cities-more than that, a talent for them, a gift of sensing them, of feeling their rhythm and pulsebeats, as others have a highly developed music sense, or color reaction. It is a thing that cannot be acquired.”

People Feelings Cities Talent Color Reactions Rhythm Sensing

Book:Fanny Herself

Source: Fanny Herself

“don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?”

People Hate Complaining Hate People

Book:Great Son

Source: Great Son

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

People Giving Names Dislike Nicknames

Book:A Peculiar Treasure

Source: A Peculiar Treasure

“I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are destroying the land. A magic continent, a Peculiar Treasure, stuffed with riches, millions in it are starving in the midst of plenty.”

People Ifs Sometimes Wonder Millions Magic Land Riches Treasure Plenty Midst Destroying Peculiar Continents Starving

Book:A Peculiar Treasure

Source: A Peculiar Treasure

“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.”

Source: A Peculiar Treasure

“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.”

People Way Past Mindfulness Lonely Muscles Dull Necks Looking Back Strain Bumps Being Lonely Past Present And Future Past Present Future Living In The Past Future And Present Past Present Future Love Leaving The Past

Author: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.”

People Ifs Trying Mistake Mad

Book:Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life

Source: Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life

About the Author

Born: August 15, 1885
Died: April 16, 1968
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 104

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