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Quote by Edna Ferber
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful s

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

Other quotes by Edna Ferber

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, theres something wrong with American politics. – Edna Ferber

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Politics
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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

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Live Now
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I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours. – Edna Ferber

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Discovery
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Other Quotes from
Death
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Somehow, knowing that Alzheimers is coming mocks all ones aspirations – to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for ones accomplishments and hard work – in a way that old familiar death does not. – Jane Smiley

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Death

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. – George Carlin

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Death

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. – David Sarnoff

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Death

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. – Susan Sontag

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Death

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To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nations sweetest dreams of itself. – Leonard Cohen

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Dreams

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order. – Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, 1989

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Writing

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor. – Bernard Williams

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Humor

My mothers family were full-on Irish Catholics – faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over womens rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old. – Geraldine Brooks

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Faith