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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: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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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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