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In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.

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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
Actor
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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Food
Opinion
Life
Dose
Junk

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People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.
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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.
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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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Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?
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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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Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.
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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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I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. Man has been building cities since the year oughty-ought, just to get away from this stuff.
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Poise and indifference so often look the same.
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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
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