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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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rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.
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Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology it's solved by people.
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I don't do things that are illegal.
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I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
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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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Being gay is just one aspect of my very complicated life. I do not wear it on my sleeve.
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We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple.
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Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
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