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Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), Cimarron (1929; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Giant (1952; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie) and Ice Palace (1958), filmed in 1960.

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But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.

Adventure, Baghdad, Happen, Happens, Know

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.

Becoming, Cut, Cutting, Literature, Somebody, Stature

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

Ifs, Intelligence, Intelligent, Ought, Woman

If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.

Actually, Death, Men, Tough, Women, Would Be

No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.

Acres, Land, United, United States

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

Business, Busybodies, Concern, Goats, Sheep

. . . 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.

Clothes, Everyday, Home, Place

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'.

Flesh, Sae, Cry, Auld, Maunthe

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

Compulsion, Help, Helping, Writer

About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.

Funny, Mad, Mistake, Mistakes, People

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

Climbing, Mountain, Occupation, Treadmill, Writing

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Death, Life, Maid, Old, Struggle, Women

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrees, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, Medium, is safe and sane, and sure.

Eye, Food, Menu, Philosophy, Table, Though

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.

Cloudless, Daily, View, Views, Wall, Writing

Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

Hardest, Men, Why Me, Work, World

Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.

Cherry, Cobblers, Food, Shortcake, Soul

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

Caviar, Champagne, Ritual, Hominy, Know

A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently the result is a short circuit.

Batteries, Short, Sparks, Vitality

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.

Back, Causing, Lonely, Looking, Past, People

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.

Dream, Fireplaces, Home, Hope, Soul, Warmthwe

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