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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
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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 mean, what do people talk about when they're married? Their kids, I guess. Maybe that's all they have in common.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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If you don't like my book, write your own.
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If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
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Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
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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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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
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Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
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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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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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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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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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