I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
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America rather, the United States seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly quick-witted, lavish, colorful given to extravagant speech and gestures its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless swarming in Fords, in ocean liners craving entertainment volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world.Edna Ferber
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death -- fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. . . . But amusing Never.
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
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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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