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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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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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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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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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I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.
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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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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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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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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
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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 finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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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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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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