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This wasn't conversation. This was oral death...
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
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The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.
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Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.
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Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
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Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.
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The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
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Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.
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Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.
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Spring... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.
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Don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?
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She never gave up hope of stiffening the spine of the invertebrate Hermie.
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Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.
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She was more than a merely good cook; she was an alchemist in food stuffs.
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'Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.'
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Gussie's mother was a real mother — the kind that wakes up when you come home.
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Here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.
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If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.
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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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A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
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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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A life like this develops the comedy sense. You can't play tragedy while you're living it.
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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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I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Edna Ferber
Born:
August 15, 1885
Died:
April 16, 1968
(aged 82)
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