Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
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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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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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Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.
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I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.
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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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It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.
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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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Familiarity breeds consent.
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Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
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Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.
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I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.
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Some people live life and others talk about it.
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I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
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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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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.