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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.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
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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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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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When God made man she was practicing.
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Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.
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What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
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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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I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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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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Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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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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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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I believe in art that conceals art.
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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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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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People are like tea bags you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.
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Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
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