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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.

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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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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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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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.
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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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Familiarity breeds consent.
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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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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
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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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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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