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"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."
"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
"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."
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Edna Ferber
"A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle."
"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle."
"If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics."
"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."
"Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death."
"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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