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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: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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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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Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
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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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I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
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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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So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.
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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
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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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