Edna Ferber Quotes about Life

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Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

Life, Thinking, Way

EDNA FERBER (1931). “AMERICAN BEAUTY”

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Life, Women, Struggle

In R. E. Drennan Wit's End (1973)

People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.

Life, Past, Hands

Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”