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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.Rita Mae Brown
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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.Rita Mae Brown
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The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.Rita Mae Brown
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Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.Rita Mae Brown
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.Rita Mae Brown
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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.Rita Mae Brown
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When God made man she was practicing.Rita Mae Brown
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.Rita Mae Brown
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Writers will happen in the best of families.Rita Mae Brown
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.Rita Mae Brown
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Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.Rita Mae Brown
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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.Rita Mae Brown
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When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.Rita Mae Brown
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I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.Rita Mae Brown
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It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.Rita Mae Brown
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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.Rita Mae Brown
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.Rita Mae Brown
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I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.Rita Mae Brown
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.Rita Mae Brown
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Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà !Rita Mae Brown
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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.Rita Mae Brown
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Carrie, sitting there over your coffee cup in a wasteland of worn-out silver wedding rings, feeding yourself confections of motherhood like the display cakes in the bakery where you worked- all trimming over cardboard.Rita Mae Brown
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If you dont like my book write your own.Rita Mae Brown
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I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.Rita Mae Brown
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Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.Rita Mae Brown
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That's the craziest, dumbass thing I ever heard tell of. What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? Hell, if I wanted a man, I'll get the real thing not one of these chippies.Rita Mae Brown
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.Rita Mae Brown
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I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.Rita Mae Brown
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction.Rita Mae Brown
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A peacefulness follows any decision even the wrong one.Rita Mae Brown
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So often the truth is told with hate and lies are told with love.Rita Mae Brown
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All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.Rita Mae Brown
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If the world were a logical place men would ride sidesaddle.Rita Mae Brown
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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.Rita Mae Brown
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.Rita Mae Brown
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life time for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargainRita Mae Brown
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Humor comes from self-confidence.Rita Mae Brown
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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.Rita Mae Brown
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I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.Rita Mae Brown
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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.Rita Mae Brown
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.Rita Mae Brown
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If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.Rita Mae Brown