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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
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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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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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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
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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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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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Political elections are not life and death.
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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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I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
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The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.
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