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Give yourself time to get better.

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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
Actor
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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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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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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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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That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
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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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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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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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God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.
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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
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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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After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
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It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.
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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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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've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.
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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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In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.
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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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There's really no such thing as an 'ex-cop' or a cop who's 'off-duty' or 'retired.' Once trained, once indoctrinated, a cop is always alert, assessing reality in terms of its potential for illegal acts.
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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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