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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)

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
Screenwriter
Writer
Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
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The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.
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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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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
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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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My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.
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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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My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.
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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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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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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that I'd completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.
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I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result. I don't think you write one book and get anywhere. I think you write five books and then maybe you are finally on the right path.
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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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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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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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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