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I loved the newspaper work, but I like fiction better. Newspaper writing is fine but it doesn’t do to stay at it too long.

— Edna Ferber Interview (1924)

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It takes a brave, courageous, determined woman to make tea biscuit for no one but herself.

A woman can look both moral and exciting—if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Bernie occupied the great leather chair by the fire, a modish semi-invalid in his Charvet dressing gown of maroon faille brought from Paris by Lotta.

Come and get it (1935)

The persecution, torture, and death of six million European Jews had actually brought little or no protest from a Christian world whose religion was based on the teachings of a Jew.

One basket (1947)

On his face was a queer look-the look of one who is embarrassed because he is about to say something honest.

One basket (1947)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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