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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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Appleton
Wisconsin
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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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Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
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Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.
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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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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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But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
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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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Men often marry their mothers.
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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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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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A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
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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 writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
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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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Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.
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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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Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.
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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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