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I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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People are like tea bags you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.
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many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
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Some people live life and others talk about it.
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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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Nothing is unnatural - just untried.
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Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
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About all you can do in life is be who you are.
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American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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When God made man she was practicing.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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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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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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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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