Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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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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I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.
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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
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Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.
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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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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
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An army of lovers shall not fail.
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Gossip is irresponsible communication.
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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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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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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
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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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You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.
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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.
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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 have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.
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All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.
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About all you can do in life is be who you are.
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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.