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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whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
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Love is the wild card of existence.
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Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.
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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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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
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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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piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.
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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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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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The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.
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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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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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If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.
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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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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
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Do not judge. Never presume to judge another human being anyway. That's up to heaven.
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The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.
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Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.