Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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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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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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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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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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Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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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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One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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Some people live life and others talk about it.
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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
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Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.
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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.
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about.
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I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.
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Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?