Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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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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Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.
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There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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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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What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.
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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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Gossip is irresponsible communication.
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For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.
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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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When God made man she was practicing.
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
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friendship is love made bearable.