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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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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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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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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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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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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 have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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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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When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
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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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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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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
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