Edna Ferber Texas Quotations

Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.

Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.