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People talk about dysfunctional families I've never seen any other kind.
Sue Grafton
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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
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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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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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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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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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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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If you're unhappy, change something.
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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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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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Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.
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What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?
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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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Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.
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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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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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Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?
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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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I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether the work is going well or I'm stuck in the hell of writer's block, which I'm happy to report only occurs about once a day.
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You never know which people will affect your life.
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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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Poise and indifference so often look the same.
Sue Grafton
