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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: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
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Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
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Normal is the average of deviance.
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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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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.
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Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
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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 real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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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 think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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