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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
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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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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.
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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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...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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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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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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When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
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Love is the wild card of existence.
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If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
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One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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I believe all literature started as gossip.
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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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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