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The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
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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It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
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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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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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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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Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
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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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Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.
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