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" First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty. "
Patricia Cornwell
Crime
Death
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" I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable. "
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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. "
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" I've been stalked. "
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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. "
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" I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself. "
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" Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge. "
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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. "
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