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Never hope for it more than you work for it.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Work
Never
Hope

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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.
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I mean, what do people talk about when they're married? Their kids, I guess. Maybe that's all they have in common.
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Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
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People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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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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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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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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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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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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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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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 had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.
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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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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
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People are like tea bags you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.
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whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
Rita Mae Brown