A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
--Rita Mae Brown
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
--Rita Mae Brown
A woman who will tell her age will tell anything.
--Rita Mae Brown
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
Adjectives are the curse of America.
--Rita Mae Brown
All decisions are based on insufficient evidence.
--Rita Mae Brown
Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.
--Rita Mae Brown
Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
--Rita Mae Brown
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
--Rita Mae Brown
Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.
--Rita Mae Brown
Confession is not necessarily communication.
--Rita Mae Brown
Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
--Rita Mae Brown
Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
--Rita Mae Brown
Familiarity breeds consent.
--Rita Mae Brown
Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.
--Rita Mae Brown
Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.
--Rita Mae Brown
Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.
--Rita Mae Brown
Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
--Rita Mae Brown
Humor comes from self-confidence.
--Rita Mae Brown
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
--Rita Mae Brown
I think the secret of life is there is no secret.
--Rita Mae Brown
I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.
--Rita Mae Brown
I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.
--Rita Mae Brown
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
--Rita Mae Brown
If Michelangelo had been a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.
--Rita Mae Brown
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
--Rita Mae Brown
If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.
--Rita Mae Brown
If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
--Rita Mae Brown
In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.
--Rita Mae Brown
In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.
--Rita Mae Brown
In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
--Rita Mae Brown
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
--Rita Mae Brown
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
--Rita Mae Brown
It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
--Rita Mae Brown
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
--Rita Mae Brown
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
--Rita Mae Brown
Life is too short to be miserable.
--Rita Mae Brown
Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
--Rita Mae Brown
Morals are private. Decency is public.
--Rita Mae Brown
Never hope for it more than you work for it.
--Rita Mae Brown
Normal is the average of deviance.
--Rita Mae Brown
Nothing is unnatural- just untried.
--Rita Mae Brown
Novelty is not necessarily a virtue.
--Rita Mae Brown
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
--Rita Mae Brown
Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
--Rita Mae Brown
Pain isn't always the enemy.
--Rita Mae Brown
People aren't grapes- you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.
--Rita Mae Brown
Piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.
--Rita Mae Brown
Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
--Rita Mae Brown
So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.
--Rita Mae Brown
So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
--Rita Mae Brown
Some people live life and others talk about it.
--Rita Mae Brown
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
The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.
--Rita Mae Brown
The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
--Rita Mae Brown
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
Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
--Rita Mae Brown
Trust your instincts, and never hope more than you work.
--Rita Mae Brown
Whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
--Rita Mae Brown
Writers will happen in the best of families.
--Rita Mae Brown
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
--Rita Mae Brown
You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If somebody drives it off a cliff, that's it.
--Rita Mae Brown
You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.
--Rita Mae Brown
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