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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

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Edna Ferber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 16
Journalist
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Appleton
Wisconsin
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here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.
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don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?
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I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way.
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The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
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