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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If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
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The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.
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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
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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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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
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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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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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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
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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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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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Some people live life and others talk about it.
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In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.
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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.
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So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.
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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.