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Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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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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Familiarity breeds consent.
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American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
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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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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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If you don't like my book, write your own.
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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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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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whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
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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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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.
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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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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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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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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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Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.
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