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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
Prosaist
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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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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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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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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
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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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Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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Nothing is unnatural - just untried.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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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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Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.
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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
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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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Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.
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What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
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I believe in art that conceals art.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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