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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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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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Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
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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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Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
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I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
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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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My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
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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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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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I believe all literature started as gossip.
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While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, Man, And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
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I mean, what do people talk about when they're married? Their kids, I guess. Maybe that's all they have in common.
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Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.
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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
Rita Mae Brown
