Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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We're really blessed that we've been as well received as we have been.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
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I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.
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I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.
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All that is base in the masses is temporary, no doubt serving only to prevent evolution (that of the elite, as well) from proceeding too quickly and thus not becoming 'reality.'
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It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.
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I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic.
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If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can I get a pen like this so I can write great stories?' Well, I am just a pen in the hands of the Lord. He is the author. All praise should go to him.
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[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.
