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Political elections are not life and death.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
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Poet
Polo Player
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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
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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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Consider the new woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.
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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
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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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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.
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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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Normal is the average of deviance.
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