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About all you can do in life is be who you are.

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
Prosaist
Screenwriter
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Individuality
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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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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My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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I believe in art that conceals art.
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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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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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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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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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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.
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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 believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
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So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.
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