Rita Mae Brown - Human Quotes

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

Rita Mae Brown
Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.

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Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.

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What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.

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I also think living in the country gives you faith. All you have to do is get up and look at the mountains and look at the other animals to realize that your problems are mostly made up or exacerbated by humans. But human life isn't necessarily life. There's so much more out there.

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

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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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The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

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Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it.... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character.... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.

Rita Mae Brown