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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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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
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Journalist
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Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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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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My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.
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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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After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
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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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I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.
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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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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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That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
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The struggle is what teaches you.
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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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Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.
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If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
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All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit.
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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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Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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