Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
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Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.
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whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
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Love is the wild card of existence.
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Nothing is unnatural - just untried.
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Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.
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Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.
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piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
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I believe all literature started as gossip.
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There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.
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The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.
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If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.
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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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People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.
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The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
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While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.
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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
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The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.
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Do not judge. Never presume to judge another human being anyway. That's up to heaven.
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In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.