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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.

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
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
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I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.
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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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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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Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
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many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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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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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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