"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."
"In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal."
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Source: Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.341, Bantam
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