"I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town."
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Rita Mae Brown quotes (page 10 of 13)
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"The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings."
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"Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life."
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"... I distrust manifest knowledge."
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"Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity."
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"The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient."
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"Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets."
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"Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive."
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"Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know."
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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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"I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off."
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"Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about."
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"No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people."
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"If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing."
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"A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos."
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"The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have."
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"Gossip is irresponsible communication."
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"There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace."
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"Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck."
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"I believe all literature started as gossip."
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