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When God made man she was practicing.

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
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Men
Practicing
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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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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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
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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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American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
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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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Normal is the average of deviance.
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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