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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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Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.
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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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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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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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Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.
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Happiness is seasonal, like anything else
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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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People talk about dysfunctional families I've never seen any other kind.
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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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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
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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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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'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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You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.
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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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Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
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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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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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I only get writer's block about once a day.
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Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
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