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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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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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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. – Edna Ferber

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Discovery
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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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Other Quotes from
Death
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? – Plato

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Death

Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. – G. Gordon Liddy

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Death

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream. – Emilio Estevez

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Death

Less base the fear of death than fear of life. – Edward Young

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Death

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To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden. – Leo Buscaglia

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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become. – J. Courtney Sullivan

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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. – William Wordsworth

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In a closed society where everybodys guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. – Hunter S. Thompson

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