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Sara Paretsky
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 8
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The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.
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Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.
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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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All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.
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It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating
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Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.
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Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.
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Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.
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The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
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I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.
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The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.
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I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
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I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
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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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Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel
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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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I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.
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White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
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The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.
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Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.
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