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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.

Edna Ferber

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Edna Ferber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 16
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Appleton
Wisconsin
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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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The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
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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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The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
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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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here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.
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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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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 placated bully is a hand-fed bully.
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Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
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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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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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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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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
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