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Quote by Edna Ferber
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful s

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

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A woman can look both moral and exciting… if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. – Edna Ferber

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Women
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Life cant defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writers lover until death. – Edna Ferber

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Death
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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. – Edna Ferber

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Live Now
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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. – John Steinbeck

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Death

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Death

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. – Jean de la Bruyere

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Death

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, Well, good on you. See you there. – Christopher Hitchens

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Death

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He conquers who endures. – Persius

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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. – Leo Buscaglia

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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. – Jawaharlal Nehru

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I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know whats going to be happening at any given moment. – Michelle Pfeiffer

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