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Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.

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Sara Paretsky
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 8
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Crime Writer
Novelist
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Ames
Iowa
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I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues
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I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
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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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If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.
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Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.
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