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The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
Edna Ferber
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Edna Ferber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 16
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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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Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.
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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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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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Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.
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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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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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don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?
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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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Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
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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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Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.
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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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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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Men often marry their mothers.
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I like any place that isn't here.
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