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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

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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If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
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Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!
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What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
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Some people live life and others talk about it.
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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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If you don't like my book, write your own.
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I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.
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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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I mean, what do people talk about when they're married? Their kids, I guess. Maybe that's all they have in common.
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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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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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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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