Laura Lippman Quotes
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There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.
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I had ancestors who were slave-holders, which is a difficult piece of family history to say the least. In a recent New York Times article on the subject of modern attitudes toward our slave-holding past, the writer noted that we all want to be from "innocent origins." I _know_ I'm not. Then again, I suspect most of us are not.
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My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.
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There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.
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Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.
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I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.
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I begin each book with a challenge to myself.
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There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.
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There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.
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In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.
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Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.
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...it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.