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Humor comes from self-confidence.

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
Screenwriter
Writer
Confidence
Humor
Comes
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Self

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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
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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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People are like tea bags you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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Normal is the average of deviance.
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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 had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.
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When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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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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I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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