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Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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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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When God made man she was practicing.
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I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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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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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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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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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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...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
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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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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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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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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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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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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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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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One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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