Rita Mae Brown Quotes

Rita Mae Brown

American Writer

Born: Nov 28, 1944

Believe Life Love People Think You

Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself. Rita Mae Brown

You Yourself Reward Everyone Likes Conformity

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

Life is too short to be miserable. Rita Mae Brown

Life Life Is Too Short Miserable Too Short

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

Life Fight Action Must Spiritually Reaction Intellectually Slavery

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. Rita Mae Brown

Good You Rude Manners Good Manners Until Understand Truly

Morals are private. Decency is public. Rita Mae Brown

Decency Morals Private Public

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown

Happiness Memory Keys Bad

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. Rita Mae Brown

Myself Me Way Find Temptation Lead

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash. Rita Mae Brown

Everything Cash Divorce Tragedy Human

Writers will happen in the best of families. Rita Mae Brown

Best Will Writers Families Happen

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. Rita Mae Brown

Art Entertainment Passion Television Married Moral Propaganda Without

Political elections are not life and death. Rita Mae Brown

Life Death Political Life And Death Elections

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. Rita Mae Brown

Decision Follows Wrong Any Even

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash. Rita Mae Brown

Education You Wonderful Pay Sign Cash Name Wonderful Thing Your Thing

Normal is the average of deviance. Rita Mae Brown

Normal Average

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like. Rita Mae Brown

You Book Own Think Ought Tell Find Something Write Like Excuses Still Your Novel Novels

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

Work You Animal People Face Animals Year Nothing Pay Else State Local Our Earth Months Could Federal Smarter Conceive Than Six Taxation Taxes Convince Should Roughly

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist. Rita Mae Brown

Myself Thirties Consider Until Did Middle Novelist

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did. Rita Mae Brown

Writing Thirty Ability Still Did Just Interest Them Hollywood Novels

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. Rita Mae Brown

Work Great You Think Mine Impact More Could His Than Any Literary Social Much Your Assess Ever

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

Animal Compassion Keep Moving Rubble Ruined Trick About Shallow Civilizations Goes Moving Across Keep Creatures Ever Tread

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