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You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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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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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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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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Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.
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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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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
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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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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
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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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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!
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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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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.
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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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