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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
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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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While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, Man, And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
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A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
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To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
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If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
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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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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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Normal is the average of deviance.
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Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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