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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
Patricia Cornwell
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
Patricia Cornwell
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
Patricia Cornwell
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Everyone is doing forensics.
Patricia Cornwell
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
Patricia Cornwell
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Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
Patricia Cornwell
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Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.
Patricia Cornwell
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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.
Patricia Cornwell
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With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.
Patricia Cornwell
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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.
Patricia Cornwell
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Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.
Patricia Cornwell
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Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.
Patricia Cornwell
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Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
Patricia Cornwell
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I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
Patricia Cornwell
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I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
Patricia Cornwell
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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.
Patricia Cornwell
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
Patricia Cornwell
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We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple.
Patricia Cornwell
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Being gay is just one aspect of my very complicated life. I do not wear it on my sleeve.
Patricia Cornwell
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To almost die is to know that one day you will, and to never again feel the same about anything.
Patricia Cornwell
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In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.
Patricia Cornwell
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First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
Patricia Cornwell
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You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.
Patricia Cornwell
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I refuse to sit on my laurels.
Patricia Cornwell
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Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge
Patricia Cornwell
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My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.
Patricia Cornwell
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Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets
Patricia Cornwell
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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?
Patricia Cornwell
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Thoughts are odd misfires.
Patricia Cornwell
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rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.
Patricia Cornwell
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And suddenly the world was filled with wooden faces and flat voices - and, you were alone.
Patricia Cornwell
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
Patricia Cornwell
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I don't do things that are illegal.
Patricia Cornwell
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The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.
Patricia Cornwell
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Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?
Patricia Cornwell
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I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
Patricia Cornwell
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I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.
Patricia Cornwell
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
Patricia Cornwell
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The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.
Patricia Cornwell
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You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.
Patricia Cornwell
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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.
Patricia Cornwell
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
Patricia Cornwell
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I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.
Patricia Cornwell
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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.
Patricia Cornwell
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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.
Patricia Cornwell
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I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.
Patricia Cornwell
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I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
Patricia Cornwell
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I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.
Patricia Cornwell
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I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.
Patricia Cornwell
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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