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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
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Screenwriter
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Appleton
Wisconsin
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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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It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
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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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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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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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People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
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Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
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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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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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Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.
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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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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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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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Men often marry their mothers.
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The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
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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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We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth—we build them for the warmth of the soul we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.
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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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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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Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
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