Rita Mae Brown Quotes

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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
Sometimes misattributed to Albert Einstein

Rita Mae Brown
Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

Rita Mae Brown
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

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So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.

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Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos...

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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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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.

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She says the same thing over and over again thinking repetition will substitute for proof.

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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

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You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If somebody drives it off a cliff, that's it.

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A woman who will tell her age will tell anything.

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You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

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Do not judge. Never presume to judge another human being anyway. That's up to heaven.

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Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.

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The difference between genius and stupidity is that even genius has its limits.

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Anyway, in America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

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Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.

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Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers.... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.

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The reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.

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If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

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Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

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I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard.

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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

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Consider the 'new' woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home. It remains for each woman to find her place and each man his in this cultural chaos of mixed signals.

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