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Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
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Screenwriter
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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.
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Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
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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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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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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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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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The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.
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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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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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Life is too short to be miserable.
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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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When God made man she was practicing.
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If you don't like my book, write your own.
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Political elections are not life and death.
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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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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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