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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

Sue Grafton

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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
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Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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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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There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was Edward Gorey who wrote the book The Gashlycrumb Tinies, about the untimely death of 26 Victorian children, each representing a letter of the alphabet. I thought what a great way to link the titles.
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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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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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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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
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For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance
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You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.
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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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Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
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Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.
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Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.
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Happiness is seasonal, like anything else
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God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.
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If you're unhappy, change something.
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People talk about dysfunctional families I've never seen any other kind.
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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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any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.
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