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Life is too short to be miserable.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
Prosaist
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Miserable
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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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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
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My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
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Consider the new woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.
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Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
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The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
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Nothing is unnatural - just untried.
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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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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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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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
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I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
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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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People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.
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