Sara Paretsky Quotes
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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This medal goes to show that you don't always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.
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I've loved cartoons all along. Most people outgrow that when they hit 10 or 12, I guess, but I never did. I'm not sure why.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.
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As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
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The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.
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To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.
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The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity.
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My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
