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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

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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