Rita Mae Brown Quotes - Page 10

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• We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.

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  Children, Garden, Wind

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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• Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

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  Monogamy, Social, Contrary

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Animal Magnetism: My Life with Creatures Great and Small”, p.21, Ballantine Books

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• the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.

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  Things In Life, Revolution, Reason

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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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  Art, Pain, Chaos

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• English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

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  Emotional, Language, Weak

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.92, Bantam

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• There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.

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  People, Lines, Chaos

  Rita Mae Brown (2014). “In Her Day”, p.87, Bantam

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• We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

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  Life, Animal, Thinking

  "9 Reasons A Cat Should Be President" by Rita Mae Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2012.

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• Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

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  Sports, Character, Opportunity

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• Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

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  Intuition, Logic, Instinct

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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• The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.

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  Kings, Done, Good Things

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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.

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  Fall, Character, Writing

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• Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.

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  Sex, Exercise, Yeast

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• I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

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  Mean, Dragons, Bulls

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• Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.

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  Mother, Sorrow, Bills

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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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  Writing, Next, Want

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• Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Army, Males

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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• American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.

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  Smart, Hunting, Foxes

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