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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
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Appleton
Wisconsin
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You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.
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The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
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Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.
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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.
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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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People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
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A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.
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Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.
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There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.
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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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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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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.
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Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
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Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.
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Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
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The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will do, cloudless if possible.
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Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
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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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I like any place that isn't here.
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