Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.
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A narcissism shared by two.
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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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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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You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
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One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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Life is too short to be miserable.
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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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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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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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If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
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Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?
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I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
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I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.
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all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
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Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.