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Life Brings With It Strangeness And Surprises And Upsets

-Patricia Cornwell

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Life Brings With It

Patricia Cornwell

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Life Brings With It Strangeness And Surprises And Upsets

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Do No Harm & Leave The World A Better Place Than You Found It.

I've Never Taken A Scalpel To A Dead Body.

Murder Is About Power And The More Powerful Women Get The More It Will Change The Good That They Do And The Bad That They Do.

Life Brings With It Strangeness And Surprises And Upsets

Leaves Covered Pavement Like Soggy Cereal.

You Can't Cure A Chipped Plate. All You Can Do Is Live With It Or Throw It Out.

Botox Not Only Helps With Wrinkles, It Actually Makes You Feel More Relaxed As Frowning Causes Tension.

Survival My Only Hope. Success My Only Revenge

Being Gay Is Just One Aspect Of My Very Complicated Life. I Do Not Wear It On My Sleeve.

When I Was At College There Were Two Things I Vowed I'd Never Do. One Was Go To A Funeral And The Other Was Deal With Computers. And Then I Ended Up Being A Computer Programmer In A Morgue.

I Don't Do Things That Are Illegal.

I've Always Believed Human Blood Is Red Because It Really Needs To Draw Attention To Itself.

We Create Our Own Worlds. We Destroy Our Own Worlds. It Is That Simple.

I'm Always Surprised When Large Numbers Of People Buy My Books.

I Believe The Root Of All Evil Is Abuse Of Power.

Has All The Trappings Of A Mystery Novel, Doesn't It?

Thoughts Are Odd Misfires.

In My Forties, My Optimism Was Boundless. I Had Really Good Health And Tremendous Success Which Allowed Me To Do Anything I Wanted.

I Dropped Chemistry. I Practically Blew Up The Lab In College.

The Biggest Risk With A Series That Goes On This Long Is That You'll Get Bored With The Character.

With Dna, The Ability To Find Out A Lot More With A Lot Less Has Increased Our Ability For Identification.

Even If You Are A Best-seller You Feel Insecure Because It Is All So Unpredictable.

And Suddenly The World Was Filled With Wooden Faces And Flat Voices - And, You Were Alone.

In The First Person, The Readers Feel Smart, Like It's Them Solving The Case.

If Everybody, Every Day, Would Try To Do One Thing That Pulls Them Beyond Themselves The World Will Start Being A Better Place.

I Stop Working At About 3 P.m. On Fridays.

Rain Slowly Slides Down The Glass As If The Night Is Crying.

My Friends Call Me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

Worst Case Scenario

On The Last Morning Of Virginia's Bloodiest Year Since The Civil War, I Built A Fire And Sat Facing A Window Of Darkness Where At Sunrise I Knew I Would Find The Sea.

I Like Crazy Shoes Or Unusual Cowboy Boots And I Collect Big Belt Buckles.

The Dead Have Never Bothered Me. It's The Living That I Fear.

America Is The Most Violent Democracy In The World. It's Something That's Met With Great Shock, Horror, And Mystery When I Travel To Other Countries. They Ask, Why Are There So Many Shootings In America? Why Does Everyone Own A Gun?

Being With Someone Who Is Smart And Gives Good Advice Adds Tremendously Wonderful Elements To Your Life.

I Refuse To Sit On My Laurels.

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When I Was In Second Grade, My Mother Moved From Miami To This Evangelical Conservative Environment In Western North Carolina, Two Miles Down The Road From Billy Graham And His Wife, Ruth.

I Wouldn't Want To Donate My Body For Scientific Study.

I Didn't Invent Forensic Science And Medicine. I Just Was One Of The First People To Recognize How Interesting It Is.

To Almost Die Is To Know That One Day You Will, And To Never Again Feel The Same About Anything.

I Wouldn't Want To Assume That All Men Are Like You. If I Did, I Know I Would Give Them Up Entirely

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Grief Was Like A Seizure That Shook Me Like A Storm.

I Am An Armani And A Dolce & Gabbana Kind Of A Person.

I Won't Put Myself In A Position Where I'm Vulnerable.

Even When I Am Writing I Usually Take A Break Around Lunchtime And Go For A Little Walk To Clear Out My Head.

You Have To Live Where You Wake Up, Even If Someone Else Dreamed You There.

Night Fell Clean And Cold In Dublin, And Wind Moaned Beyond My Room As If A Million Pipes Played The Air.

He Was Pushing Fifty, With A Face Life Had Chewed On, And Long Wisps Of Graying Hair Parted Low On One Side And Combed Over His Balding Pate.

My Fans Want Me To Talk To Them. And Even If They Want To Be Critical, I Want To Hear What They've Got To Say.

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