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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: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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I believe all literature started as gossip.
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Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
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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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People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.
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Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.
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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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While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, Man, And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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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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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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