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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
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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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It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
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But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
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here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.
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Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.
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don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?
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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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You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.
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writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.
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Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.
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