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I believe all literature started as gossip.

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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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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Normal is the average of deviance.
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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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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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I believe in art that conceals art.
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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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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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Consider the new woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.
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Love is the wild card of existence.
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Nothing is unnatural - just untried.
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A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
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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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Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
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Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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