Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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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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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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The owner of Mojo's was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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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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Tennis is physical chess.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.
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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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There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.
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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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Political elections are not life and death.
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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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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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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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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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Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.
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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 always feel bad for those who, in a sense, cede their authority to others, let others make major decisions about their life and actually believe them. When you're tiny, you have no choice. But as soon as your mind starts working, you pretty well figure it out. And you realize you're a hostage until you're old enough to leave. But as long as you have that goal - I will get out of here - you'll be OK.
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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.