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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
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Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!
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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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To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
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Love is the wild card of existence.
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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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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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
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Political elections are not life and death.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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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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