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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

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
Memorable
Rarely
Writers
Sight
Seen
Read
Women
Winsome

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In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.
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Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
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don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?
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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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It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
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The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
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Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.
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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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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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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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