Rita Mae Brown Quotes

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

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

Rita Mae Brown
A woman who will tell her age will tell anything.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James Version.

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Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

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Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.

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I became a lesbian out of devout Christian charity. All those women out there are praying for a man and I gave them my share.

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All outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever — fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.

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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.

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Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

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There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.

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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

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Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.

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The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.

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I know that after all is said and done, more is said than done.

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Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

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Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.

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Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!

Rita Mae Brown