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But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.
Edna Ferber
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Edna Ferber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 16
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Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.
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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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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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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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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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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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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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don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?
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Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
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The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will do, cloudless if possible.
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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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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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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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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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