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" Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash. "
Rita Mae Brown
Wonderful
Name
Education
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" I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can. "
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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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You
People
" I don't think you can ever assess your work. I don't think Turgenev could assess his any more than I can assess mine, and his didn't have a social impact as much as great literary impact. "
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You
I Can
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" Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. "
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Suspension
Intuition
Impatience
" Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough. "
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Me
Rainbow
End
" The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself. "
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You
Yourself
Likes
" If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle. "
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World
Logical
Ride
" Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual. "
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Virginia
Said
Bisexual
" I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate. "
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Beautiful
Women
Strong
" Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. "
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Myself
Temptation
Way
" We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events? "
Rita Mae Brown
Think
Live Life
Live
" I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull. "
Rita Mae Brown
Writer
Bull
Dragons
" Normal is the average of deviance. "
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Normal
Average
" Writers will happen in the best of families. "
Rita Mae Brown
Will
Families
Happen
" Morals are private. Decency is public. "
Rita Mae Brown
Public
Private
Morals
" A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. "
Rita Mae Brown
Follows
Even
Decision
" If you like my novels, I commend your good taste. "
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Good
Good Taste
Like
" I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat. "
Rita Mae Brown
Many
My Life
Never
" Political elections are not life and death. "
Rita Mae Brown
Death
Life
Life And Death
" Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens. "
Rita Mae Brown
Cats
Nobody
Top
" 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
Slavery
Reaction
Action
" Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there. "
Rita Mae Brown
Live
Ask
Grow
" I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority. "
Rita Mae Brown
Disrespect
Authority
Believe
" A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. "
Rita Mae Brown
Negative
Inspiration
Deadline
" There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients. "
Rita Mae Brown
Day
Life
My Life
" 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
Only
Think
Sex
" The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. "
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People
Anybody
Who
" All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion. "
Rita Mae Brown
Compassion
Keep Moving
Moving
" 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. "
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Best
You
Friends
" Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist. "
Rita Mae Brown
Until
Myself
Middle