A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
- Edna Ferber
Living, Next, Wounded, Stricken
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
- Edna Ferber
Christmas, Feeling, Season
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
- Edna Ferber
Death, Old, Like, Struggle
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
Been, Cut, Which, Stature
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.
- Edna Ferber
Looking Back, Living, Strains
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
- Edna Ferber
Only, Beef, Roast Beef, Philosophy
A closed mind is a dying mind.
- Edna Ferber
Mind, Dying, Closed
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
- Edna Ferber
Sight, Should, Read, Rarely
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
- Edna Ferber
Wisdom, Bad, Too, Perhaps
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
- Edna Ferber
Love, Defeat, Itself, Lover
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
- Edna Ferber
Better, Big, Mean, Necessarily
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
- Edna Ferber
Politics, American, Part, Dirty
It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
- Edna Ferber
Die, Learn, Then, Too Late
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