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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 am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy."

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"The Obama administration has now taken exactly the same position as the Bush administration. I don't see how you can keep people from knowing who visits the White House and adhere to a policy of openness and transparency."

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"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."

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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

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"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."

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"People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever."

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"People don't commit suicide. They get lost in darkness because they can't find any lights of hope."

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"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

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