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Writers will happen in the best of families.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
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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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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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I believe in art that conceals art.
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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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Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
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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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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
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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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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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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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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.
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People are like tea bags you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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