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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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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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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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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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