Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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When God made man she was practicing.
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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The owner of Mojo's was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand.
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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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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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Adjectives are the curse of America.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.
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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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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
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In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.
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A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
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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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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.
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sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.
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American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
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English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.