Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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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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Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.
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Do not judge. Never presume to judge another human being anyway. That's up to heaven.
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.
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Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.
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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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Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
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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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I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.
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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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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
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I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.
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Familiarity breeds consent.
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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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...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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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.
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I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
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When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
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In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.