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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
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Distrust
Manifest
Knowledge

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Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.
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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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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
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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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whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
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When God made man she was practicing.
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Familiarity breeds consent.
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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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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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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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Normal is the average of deviance.
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.
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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
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