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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.
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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Appleton
Wisconsin
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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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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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A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.
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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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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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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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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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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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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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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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The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
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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 story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
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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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I like any place that isn't here.
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Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.
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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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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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Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
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