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Morals are private. Decency is public.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
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Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.
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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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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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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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Normal is the average of deviance.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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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 no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.
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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!
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I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.
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Nothing is unnatural - just untried.
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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.
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