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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: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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More quotes by Rita Mae Brown
I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
Rita Mae Brown
A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
Rita Mae Brown
Familiarity breeds consent.
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I believe in art that conceals art.
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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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Nothing is unnatural - just untried.
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
Rita Mae Brown
Never hope for it more than you work for it.
Rita Mae Brown
Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
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Love is the wild card of existence.
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Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
Rita Mae Brown
Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
Rita Mae Brown
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.
Rita Mae Brown
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 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.
Rita Mae Brown
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.
Rita Mae Brown
Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
Rita Mae Brown