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"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."
"I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living."
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
"I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns."
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."
Explore more quotes by Edna Ferber
"If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics."
"A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle."
"Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death."
"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle."
"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."
"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."
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