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Rita Mae Brown, née le 28 novembre 1944 à Hanover en Pennsylvanie, est une militante, une scénariste et une écrivaine américaine, auteure de roman policier. Elle a cosigné plusieurs de ses ouvrages avec sa chatte, Sneaky Pie Brown. Wikipedia  

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Rita Mae Brown: Citations en anglais

“I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.”

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Rita Mae Brown livre Rubyfruit Jungle

Source: Rubyfruit Jungle

“❝Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.❞”

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“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.”

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Brown did include this quote in her book Sudden Death (Bantam Books, New York, 1983), p. 68, but it appears she was just paraphrasing a quote that had already been written elsewhere. The earliest known appearance of a similar quote is the "approval version" of the Narcotics Anonymous "Basic Text" released in November 1981, which included the quote "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." A PDF scan of the 1981 approval version can be found here http://www.nauca.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/1981-11-Basic-Text-Approval-Form-White.pdf, with the quote appearing on p. 11 (p. 25 of the PDF), at the end of the fourth paragraph (which begins "We have a disease; progressive, incurable and fatal"). More in this article https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/ on Quote Investigator website.
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“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.”

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Interview in OutSmart magazine https://web.archive.org/web/20080727021104/http://home.houston.rr.com/blase/Root%20Folder/ritamae.html (January 1998)

“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.”

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Starting from Scratch (1989)

“I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict. Both sides/ideas are right.”

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Starting from Scratch (1989)

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