Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.
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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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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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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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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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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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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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A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
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Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
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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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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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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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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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I believe in art that conceals art.
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Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
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He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.
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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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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.