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Sue Grafton Inspirational Quotes (68)

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There's really no such thing as an 'ex-cop' or a cop who's 'off-duty' or 'retired.' Once trained, once indoctrinated, a cop is always alert, assessing reality in terms of its potential for illegal acts.
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You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.
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Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
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My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.
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It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.
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I only get writer's block about once a day.
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School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.
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I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.
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You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.
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Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.
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There are days when none of us can bear it, but the good comes around again. Happiness is seasonal, like anything else. Wait it out. There are people who love you. People who can help.
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Give yourself time to get better.
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I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.
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If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
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any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.
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Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them. I don't believe in ghosts, I said, faintly. Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there, she replied.
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That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
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