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I believe in art that conceals art.

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
Screenwriter
Writer
Conceals
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I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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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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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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