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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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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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All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.
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I always wrote my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11
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It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating
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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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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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The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
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I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues
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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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White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
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You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate research into the narrative is to turn it into action.
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I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
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Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.
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