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Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
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Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
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Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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Some people live life and others talk about it.
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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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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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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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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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I mean, what do people talk about when they're married? Their kids, I guess. Maybe that's all they have in common.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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I believe in art that conceals art.
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
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Life is too short to be miserable.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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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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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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