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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
Actor
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Journalist
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Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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English
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I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
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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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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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any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.
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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
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What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?
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Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.
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The struggle is what teaches you.
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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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People talk about dysfunctional families I've never seen any other kind.
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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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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I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
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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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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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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
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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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God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.
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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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