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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.

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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...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
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One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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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'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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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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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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About all you can do in life is be who you are.
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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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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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No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.
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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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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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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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