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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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Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.
Rita Mae Brown
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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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It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.
Rita Mae Brown -
England is an aquarium, not a nation.
Rita Mae Brown -
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown -
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown -
Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
Rita Mae Brown
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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.
Rita Mae Brown -
He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.
Rita Mae Brown -
Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
Rita Mae Brown -
Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
Rita Mae Brown -
Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
Rita Mae Brown -
You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
Rita Mae Brown
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Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
Rita Mae Brown -
I believe in art that conceals art.
Rita Mae Brown -
Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
Rita Mae Brown -
The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
Rita Mae Brown -
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
Rita Mae Brown