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You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country. Sara Paretsky
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I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.
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I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private. Sandra Cisneros
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The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.
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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.
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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.
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All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
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Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy. William Greider
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As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.
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In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.
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Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.
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What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. William Blum
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Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step. William Dean Howells
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The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
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I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly. Mary Garden
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What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading. Harry Mathews
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Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.
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I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing.
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My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.
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When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.
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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
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My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.
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I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.
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Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad. Harry Harrison
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I like Ireland because it means I'm near France.
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The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
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In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.
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The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved. Gay Talese
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Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.
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You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect. Walter Lord
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I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush. Vincent Bugliosi
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So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.