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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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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Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
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Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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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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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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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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