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Rita Mae Brown
14 quotes
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life is too short to be miserable.”
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.”
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.”
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.”
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.”
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sudden Death (1983)
“Normal is the average of deviance.”
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Venus Envy (1993)
“I also think living in the country gives you faith. All you have to do is get up and look at the mountains and look at the other animals to realize that your problems are mostly made up or exacerbated by humans. But human life isn't necessarily life. There's so much more out there.”
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in OutSmart magazine (January 1998)
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brown may have used this quote in 2001 but it was in a 365 day "Quote" calendar in 1994.
Also quoted by: Rita Mae Brown (misattributed)
“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.”
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person... but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict. Both sides/ideas are right. 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.”
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rita Mae Brown, Starting from Scratch (1989)