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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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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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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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I believe in art that conceals art.
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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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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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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
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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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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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Normal is the average of deviance.
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
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