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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

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
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Life is too short to be miserable.
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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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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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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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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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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Political elections are not life and death.
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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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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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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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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
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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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many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
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