Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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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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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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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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About all you can do in life is be who you are.
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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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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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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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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
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Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
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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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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
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All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.
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It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.
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Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
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Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.