Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
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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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I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
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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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Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.
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Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.
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An army of lovers shall not fail.
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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
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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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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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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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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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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.
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When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
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What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
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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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the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.
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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
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Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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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.