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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
Prosaist
Screenwriter
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Normal is the average of deviance.
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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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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When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
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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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Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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When God made man she was practicing.
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