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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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“No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.”

States Care Wealth United Millions United States Land Don't Care I Don't Care Acres

Book:Giant

Source: Giant

“Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.”

States Happened Oklahoma

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

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

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

Writing States Done Memorable Serenity Impassioned

Book:A Kind of Magic

Source: A Kind of Magic

“Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.”

States Today Alive Incredibles Yesterday Violent Horrible Texas Charming Delightful Unbelievable Exhilarating

Author:Edna Ferber

“I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.”

Knows Persons Different States Dies Waste Married Folks Texas Funeral Wasting Time Dozen

Book:Giant

Source: Giant

“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

About the Author

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

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