Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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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.
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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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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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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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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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Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
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You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
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Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
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Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
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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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A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
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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.
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I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.
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Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
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I believe in art that conceals art.
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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
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He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.
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The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.
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Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.