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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
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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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People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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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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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
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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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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
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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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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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