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God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

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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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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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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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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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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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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
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any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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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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Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.
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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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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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Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
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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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Give yourself time to get better.
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Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.
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Poise and indifference so often look the same.
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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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