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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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There's really no such thing as an 'ex-cop' or a cop who's 'off-duty' or 'retired.' Once trained, once indoctrinated, a cop is always alert, assessing reality in terms of its potential for illegal acts.
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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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My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
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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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The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.
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Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?
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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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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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Give yourself time to get better.
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The struggle is what teaches you.
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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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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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Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
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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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Poise and indifference so often look the same.
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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?
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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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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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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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