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Rita Mae Brown Inspirational Quotes (136)

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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
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I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.
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Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.
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Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
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Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
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Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
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Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
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About all you can do in life is be who you are.
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