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Inspirational Quotes by Patricia Cornwell
- Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets
- I refuse to sit on my laurels.
- I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.
- To almost die is to know that one day you will, and to never again feel the same about anything.
- If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
- Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
- I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
- I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.
- I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
- Everyone is doing forensics.
- I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.
- I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
- I don't do things that are illegal.
- I like to get to bed with a clear head.
- I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
- I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
- Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.
- Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.
- The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.
- Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?
- Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge
- You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.
- We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple..
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