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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
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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
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Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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I believe in art that conceals art.
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Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.
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I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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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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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
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Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!
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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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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
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I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.
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