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I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
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I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
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