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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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When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.
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A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
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Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
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One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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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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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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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.
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Love is the wild card of existence.
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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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compromise is the work of mature people.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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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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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.
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I believe in art that conceals art.
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