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grief is an illness I can't recover from.

Sue Grafton

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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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Grief

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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.
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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
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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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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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Give yourself time to get better.
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For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance
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I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.
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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 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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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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If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
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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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Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.
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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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After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
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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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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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