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You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.
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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Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
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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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People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
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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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... 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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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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We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmthwe build them for the warmth of the soul we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.
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don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?
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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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I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.
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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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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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Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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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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There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.
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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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A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.
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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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