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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.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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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 have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
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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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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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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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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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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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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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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.
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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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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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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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