Rita Mae Brown Quotes

• I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

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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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• No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don’t love anybody.

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• Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn’t any beauty left in the people who live in these places.

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

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• One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

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

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• Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

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• I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

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• The only queer people are those who don’t love anybody.

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

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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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• Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

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• Writers will happen in the best of families.

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• A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

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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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• If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

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• Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

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  Tags in Intuition, Patience, Logic

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

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  Tags in Time, Literature, Live

• Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

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Rita Mae Brown (43)

Birth:	28th November, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Rita Mae Brown is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle. Published in 1973, it dealt with lesbian themes in an explicit manner unusual for the time. Brown is also a mystery writer and screenwriter.

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