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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
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Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
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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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American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
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Some people live life and others talk about it.
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I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.
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I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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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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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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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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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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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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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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Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
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I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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