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So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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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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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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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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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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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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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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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 have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
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Love is the wild card of existence.
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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
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