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Sara Paretsky

"People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more."

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"People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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