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It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
Edna Ferber
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Edna Ferber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 16
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Wisconsin
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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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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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But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
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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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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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The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
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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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A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
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Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.
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Men often marry their mothers.
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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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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 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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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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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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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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don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?
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It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.
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The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
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I like any place that isn't here.
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