Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
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the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.
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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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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
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Adjectives are the curse of America.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.
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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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Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.
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Never let money control you. I'd rather see someone spend every red cent and relish his/her life than scrimp, obsess, and pinch the pennies. There's something repugnant about a person who centers his life around money.
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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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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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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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Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.
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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
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Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
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About all you can do in life is be who you are.
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Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
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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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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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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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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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When God made man she was practicing.