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If you don't like my book, write your own.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
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whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.
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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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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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I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
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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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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.
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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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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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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.
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...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
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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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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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