Top 100 Patricia Cornwell Quotes
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#2. The real difference between literature and pulp is the kind of emotional responses they elicit. Dan Brown can't pierce your heart. Patricia Cornwell can't make you read a sentence twice and then look sightlessly out of the window.
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#4. Like every other mortal who has ever been touched by suicide, I had the fallacious belief that I could have done something to stop it.
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#5. 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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#6. In the animal kingdom, lions, tigers and bears - the predators - have closely spaced eyes. Giraffes, rabbits, doves - the preyed upon - have eyes more widely spaced and oriented toward the sides of their heads, because they need their peripheral vision to survive.
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#8. I don't believe for a minute that the Ripper killed only the prostitutes we hear about - five and only five.
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#9. Absolute power has corrupted and the absence of checks and balances seems complete.
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#10. That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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#11. No one good or evil ceases to exist; life is energy and energy cannot be created or destroyed; it is recycled. Therefore, it is possible that the pure of heart and the purely evil have been here before and will be here again.
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#12. Our government spies and lies. Those trusted to uphold and enforce the law use it to their advantage instead.
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#13. When there's lightning, don't stand alone or think you'll be protected by hiding in the trees. Find the nearest ditch and lie as low in it as you can.
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#14. The body was not yet fully rigorous and was still slightly warm as I began swabbing any area that a washcloth might have missed. I
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#16. A dramatic public display, Kay. The dam began to crumble with Columbine. It's not new, just the classification is. People have become addicted to attention, to fame. Profoundly disturbed individuals will kill and die for it.
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#17. For that matter I didn't understand Civil War reenactments. Why would you celebrate the biggest thing you ever lost? I quickly learned not to give voice to such skepticisms, and when asked if I was a Yankee I said I didn't follow baseball closely. That usually shut the person up.
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#18. Whatever can be used for good most assuredly will be used for evil.
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#19. I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
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#20. What the hell. You die. Everybody dies. So you die healthy. So what?
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#22. Then I will myself to feel nothing at all. It's not helpful to react the way a normal person would. I banish what will interfere with my clinical discipline and reason, I run it off and far away from me. After all these years I'm good at emptying myself out.
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#23. When what we believe we've mastered is no longer predictable we're not fine. The world suddenly is a very scary place. It loses its charm.
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#24. No, Lucy. Your mother doesn't really love men. They are a symptom of her obsessive quest of finding somebody who will make her whole. She doesn't understand that she has to make herself whole.
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#25. With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.
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#26. Being gay is just one aspect of my very complicated life. I do not wear it on my sleeve.
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#27. Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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#28. When an aircraft seems motionless, it's either heading directly toward you or directly away. Better know which it is or you're dead.
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#29. I had fired 9-millimeters before and didn't like them. they weren't as accurate as my .38 special. they weren't as safe, and they could jam. i had never been one to substitute quantity for quality, and there was no substitution for being informed and practiced
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#30. The word need is never good. I hope you never use it when you're talking about me,
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#31. prostitute he just murdered. It's called The Camden Town Murder
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#34. I didn't want her to be like me, robbed of innocence and idealism, baptized in the bloody waters of randomness and cruelty, the fabric of trust forever torn.
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#37. People often say they don't dream, when it's more accurate to say that they don't remember their dreams. It gets under our skin, Kay. All of it does. We just manage to cage in most of the emotions so they don't devour us.
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#39. I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
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#40. I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
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#41. In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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#42. 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.
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#43. Technology made everything better for a while and now it seems life is circling back around to the dark ages.
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#44. 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.
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#45. There's a penalty for trying to do what's right. The dark forces don't like it, and stress will make you sick.
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#46. If my wish was my reality, Kay, I'd be sitting in the backyard in the sun, peeling an orange.
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#48. called What to Do When the Police Leave written by Bill Jenkins, whose
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#50. I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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#51. I behave myself, but it doesn't mean I'm not interested. Being faithful to my commitments doesn't mean thoughts don't cross my mind or that I'm foolish enough to believe I'm not capable.
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#52. The world is full of people who mean no harm and cause a great deal of it.
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#53. I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.
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#54. The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.
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#55. Gordian knot, a knot impossible to unravel, and Alexander the Great solved the problem by cutting through it with his sword, in other words by cheating.
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#58. When you are beaten and raped as a child, your life is murdered even if your body isn't.
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#59. The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.
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#61. It's not true that we are never given more than we can bear. Only it isn't given.
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#63. You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.
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#64. Her case in particular haunts me. Despite decades of autopsies and crime scenes, I can honestly say I've never encountered the extreme brutality shown in the only existing scene photographs from the Ripper case.
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#65. 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.
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#66. At some level we intend everything we do. That's why it's extremely important to root out our intentions before they uproot us.
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#67. But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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#69. You can master your weather. You can make it what you want. You can have storms or sunshine. You can duck and hide or walk out in the open.
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#71. That's one of the perks if you're sick. You already feel bad enough and then people make you feel worse because they don't want to bother you.
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#72. But those days of being too terrified to move or breathe were left behind in my childhood. I've been through too much and it has hardened some primal part of me that no longer panics.
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#73. If you can create a weapon that causes enough fear the fear itself can cause damage that's as paralyzing and destructive as any physical device like a bomb or a laser gun. Fear can make decent people behave irrationally and violently.
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#75. WALTER SICKERT was connected with Jack the Ripper long before I appeared on the scene. I'm not the first one to think of him. But I'm the first to investigate him the same way we would a suspect today.
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#76. Certainly the Ripper liked to believe he was actually doing the world a favor by ridding it of "vermin," as he put it. In his mind, his victims were "whores" who got what they deserved.
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#77. broiling heat, and here I was standing out in the middle of it because he wouldn't leave me alone.
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#78. If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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#79. rights are honored only in the breach. most people don't get agents or cops assigned to them until they're already raped or dead.
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#80. Most of what went wrong in the Ripper investigation was due to ignorance.
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#83. The next three days were typical for the holiday season. No one was in or returning telephone calls. Parking
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#85. Gravity will get you. Life is inclined toward falling. Not standing or flying, indeed, barely sitting.
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#86. it's hard as hell to get politicians excited about what we do out here, or about what you do, kay."
"the problem is, the dead don't vote," i said.
"i've heard of cases where they did.
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#87. Punishment isn't punishment if you don't feel punished, if you don't experience the suffering that's intended. It's all about perception. It's all about the way you react to something and that reaction is the real weapon.
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#88. We rarely are conscious of those primitive anxieties that creep out from under reason. And the only way to banish them is to turn on all the lights.
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#89. Isolation is the cruelest of punishments, and it had never occurred to me that I was something less than human because I wasn't a man.
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#92. Odors have their own story to tell and the secret is to block them out after they're no longer relevant.
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#93. Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.
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#94. Shutting down is denial. When you deny the past, you will repeat it.
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#95. Some people should never be gone, and those that should hang around forever.
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#96. People can burn and beat love out of you. They really can kill it, and it's not your fault you don't feel it anymore, and how liberating it is to finally realize that. Love isn't for better or for worse, through thick or thin. It damn well shouldn't be.
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#97. As was true with every powerful person I had known, and there were but a few, his greatness made him humble and kind.
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#98. The beat of a butterfly wing causes a hurricane on another part of the planet.
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#99. Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
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#100. 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.
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