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... I distrust manifest knowledge.

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
Distrust
Manifest
Knowledge

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I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.
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American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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Familiarity breeds consent.
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Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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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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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
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When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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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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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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