Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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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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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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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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Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.
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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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Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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An army of lovers shall not fail.
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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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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
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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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You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.
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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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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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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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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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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.