Rita Mae Brown Quotes - Page 9

When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

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

There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.

The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.

He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.

I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.

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

Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.

Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

Never let money control you. I'd rather see someone spend every red cent and relish his/her life than scrimp, obsess, and pinch the pennies. There's something repugnant about a person who centers his life around money.

There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.

Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.

Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.