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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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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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I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
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When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
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I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. 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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Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.
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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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If you don't like my book, write your own.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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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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Familiarity breeds consent.
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Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.
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