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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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So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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Some people live life and others talk about it.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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Political elections are not life and death.
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I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.
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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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When God made man she was practicing.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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People are like tea bags you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.
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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
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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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Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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