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England is an aquarium, not a nation.

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
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Aquariums
England
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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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People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.
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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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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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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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