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People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more
Sara Paretsky
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Sara Paretsky
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 8
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While we were walking around, we came to the Catholic church, and we saw that some people had set fire to carpets and banked them around the rectory, which was made out of wood. They knew every fire truck on the South Side was going to be in the park, that the rectory would just burn to the ground. Our one little act was putting out that fire.
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She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.
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Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.
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I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues
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I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
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It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating
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Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.
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I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.
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The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
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If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.
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Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.
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I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming
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No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship
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I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.
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Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
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But what I've learned is, when your adrenaline is flowing, you can do a lot. I'm not very physical, but once some punks were trying to break into my house and I chased them down.
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