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The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

Sue Grafton

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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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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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Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.
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You never know which people will affect your life.
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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)
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Happiness is seasonal, like anything else
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I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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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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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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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 you're unhappy, change something.
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It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.
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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
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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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Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.
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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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