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Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.

Edna Ferber

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Edna Ferber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 16
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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Appleton
Wisconsin
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Christmas
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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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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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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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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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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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People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
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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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Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
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Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.
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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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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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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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Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
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don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?
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