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Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

Edna Ferber

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Edna Ferber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 16
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Appleton
Wisconsin
Cold
Cruel
Death
Lover
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Fascinating
Writing
Defeat
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Lovers
Love
Warm
Life
Constant
Lavish
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Treacherous

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writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.
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A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.
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To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only once in a lifetime. To be alive, to know consciously that you are alive, and to relish that knowledge -- this is a kind of magic. Or it may be a kind of madness, exhilarating but harmless.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.
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don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?
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People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.
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Now gae your wa'sTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunthe case sae hard is, Amang the writers and the bardies That lang they'll brook the auld I trow, Or neibours cry,'Weel brook the new'.
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Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
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But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.
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Men often marry their mothers.
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People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
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The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
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Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.
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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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I like any place that isn't here.
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No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.
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A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.
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