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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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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
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My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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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.
Rita Mae Brown
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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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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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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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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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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I believe all literature started as gossip.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
Rita Mae Brown
