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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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Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.
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Love is the wild card of existence.
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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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When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, Man, And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
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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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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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