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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
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When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
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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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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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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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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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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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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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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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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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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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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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When God made man she was practicing.
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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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