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Humor comes from self-confidence.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
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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Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.
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The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.
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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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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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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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Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.
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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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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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