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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
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Knowledge
Distrust
Manifest

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I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.
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Love is the wild card of existence.
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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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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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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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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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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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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
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Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
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