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I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
Sara Paretsky
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Sara Paretsky
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 8
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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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All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.
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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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When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city.
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If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.
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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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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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The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
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Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.
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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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I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
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