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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: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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Normal is the average of deviance.
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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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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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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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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.
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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
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Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard.
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
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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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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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