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Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
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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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