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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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Life is too short to be miserable.
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The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
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Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!
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Familiarity breeds consent.
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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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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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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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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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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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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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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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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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
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I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
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