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... I distrust manifest knowledge.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Distrust
Manifest
Knowledge

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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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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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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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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
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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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whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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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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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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Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
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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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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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