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I believe in art that conceals art.

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
Screenwriter
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Conceals
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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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When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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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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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.
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I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard.
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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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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
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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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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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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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