Rita Mae Brown Quotes - Page 8

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard.

Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!

Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.

You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.

It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.

I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.

England is an aquarium, not a nation.

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.

Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.

A narcissism shared by two.

Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Never hope for it more than you work for it.

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.

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don't know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.

Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.

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

While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

... I distrust manifest knowledge.

I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.

Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.