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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.

Sue Grafton

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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
Actor
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Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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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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Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
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Give yourself time to get better.
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Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
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The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that I'd completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.
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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
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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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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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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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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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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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You never know which people will affect your life.
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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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That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
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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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I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.
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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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