Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.
Rita Mae BrownCreativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae BrownAmerican hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
Rita Mae BrownSeriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.
Rita Mae BrownUnfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Rita Mae BrownI believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
Rita Mae BrownFor you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
Rita Mae BrownDo not judge. Never presume to judge another human being anyway. That's up to heaven.
Rita Mae BrownI no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.
Rita Mae BrownGuilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.
Rita Mae BrownNever measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
Rita Mae BrownFemininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
Rita Mae BrownPornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
Rita Mae BrownI have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
Rita Mae BrownI mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.
Rita Mae BrownWhat's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
Rita Mae BrownThere hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.
Rita Mae BrownTennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
Rita Mae BrownOh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
Rita Mae BrownIt doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.
Rita Mae BrownOnce you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.
Rita Mae BrownThe human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.
Rita Mae BrownLesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.
Rita Mae BrownPeople aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.
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