Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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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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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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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.
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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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Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
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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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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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I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.
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People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.
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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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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
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Normal is the average of deviance.
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.
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Gossip is irresponsible communication.
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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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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
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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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One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"
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The owner of Mojo's was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand.