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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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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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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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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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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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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In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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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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Some people live life and others talk about it.
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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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Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
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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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Familiarity breeds consent.
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Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.
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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.