Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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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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Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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Life is too short to be miserable.
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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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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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.
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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
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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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I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.
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I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.
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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don't know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.
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the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.
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Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.
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I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.
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No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.