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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.
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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
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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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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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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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I believe in art that conceals art.
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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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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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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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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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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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