Quote by Edna Ferber
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strain

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

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

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Life cant defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writers lover until death. – Edna Ferber

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The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess. – Chris Cobbs

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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. – Sholem Asch, The Nazarene, 1939

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You have to wake up a virgin each morning. – Jean-Louis Barrault

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Take your eyes off what you lost. – Daniel, @blindedpoet

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Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw. – Ambrose Bierce

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Poetry… simple, sensuous and passionate. – John Milton, “Of Education. To Mr. Samuel Hartlib,” c.1650

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