Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.
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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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Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.
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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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The owner of Mojo's was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand.
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As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation.
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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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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.
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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
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Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
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Pain isn't always the enemy.
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I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.
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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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Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.
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If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.
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If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
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I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
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Tennis is physical chess.
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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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.