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If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.

Sara Paretsky

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Sara Paretsky
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 8
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Crime Writer
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Ames
Iowa
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The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
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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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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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Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.
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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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Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.
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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'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues
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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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I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
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I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
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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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