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Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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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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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
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Nothing is unnatural - just untried.
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The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.
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Some people live life and others talk about it.
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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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Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
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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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Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
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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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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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Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
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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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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.
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