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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
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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
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Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.
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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
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When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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Love is the wild card of existence.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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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 distrust manifest knowledge.
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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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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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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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Life is too short to be miserable.
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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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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