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You never know which people will affect your life.

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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
Actor
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Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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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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That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
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My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
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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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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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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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Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.
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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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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
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We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.
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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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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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Happiness is seasonal, like anything else
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If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
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Age plays cruel tricks on the human face all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.
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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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Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
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Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.
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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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Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.
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