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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.

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
Way
Liked
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Door
Never
Doors
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Walk
Walks
Hell
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Bust
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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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here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.
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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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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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