Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
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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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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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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've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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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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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.
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I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.
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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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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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An army of lovers shall not fail.
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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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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
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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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Life is too short to be miserable.
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Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.