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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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Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
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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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That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
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You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.
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Poise and indifference so often look the same.
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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Happiness is seasonal, like anything else
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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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Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.
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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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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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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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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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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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The struggle is what teaches you.
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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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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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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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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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