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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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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
Actor
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Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.
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What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?
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Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.
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Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)
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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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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.
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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
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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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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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The struggle is what teaches you.
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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
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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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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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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 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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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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I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether the work is going well or I'm stuck in the hell of writer's block, which I'm happy to report only occurs about once a day.
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