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Some people live life and others talk about it.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.
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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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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
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You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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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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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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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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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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Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.
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