Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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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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The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.
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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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The owner of Mojo's was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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Tennis is physical chess.
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Adjectives are the curse of America.
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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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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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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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compromise is the work of mature people.
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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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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
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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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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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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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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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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.
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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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Political elections are not life and death.
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Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.
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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.