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whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.

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
Prosaist
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Life is too short to be miserable.
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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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I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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Love is the wild card of existence.
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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Familiarity breeds consent.
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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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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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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard.
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