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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.
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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 every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
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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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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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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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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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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.
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I believe all literature started as gossip.
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When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
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