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Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.
Sara Paretsky
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Sara Paretsky
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 8
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Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.
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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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If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.
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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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No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship
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I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book.
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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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White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
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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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Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
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I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
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Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.
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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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