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Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge

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Patricia Cornwell
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: June 9
Art Collector
Crime Writer
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Miami
Florida
Patricia Carroll Daniels
Revenge
Survival
Success
Hope

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Being gay is just one aspect of my very complicated life. I do not wear it on my sleeve.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.
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I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.
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I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.
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Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?
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To almost die is to know that one day you will, and to never again feel the same about anything.
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Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.
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You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.
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The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.
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I refuse to sit on my laurels.
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I hate the term mystery. That's not what I write. I think the Scarpetta novels are much more character-driven than an average puzzle solver. Writing should be like a pane of glass - there's another world on the other side and your vision carries you there, but you're not aware of having passed through a barrier to get there.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology it's solved by people.
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Everyone is doing forensics.
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I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.
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We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple.
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I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
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Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
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