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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
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Work
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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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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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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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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Consider the new woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.
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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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If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
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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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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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About all you can do in life is be who you are.
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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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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 in art that conceals art.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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