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Love is the wild card of existence.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
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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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Life is too short to be miserable.
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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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Consider the new woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.
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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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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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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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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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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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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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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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The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.
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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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