Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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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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People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.
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Pain isn't always the enemy.
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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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Tennis is physical chess.
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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
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I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.
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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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Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.
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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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Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.
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Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.
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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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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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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.
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Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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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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Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.