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any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

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
Species
Mystery
Short
Writer
Artist
Two
Moralist
Magician
Supply

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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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Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.
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There are days when none of us can bear it, but the good comes around again. Happiness is seasonal, like anything else. Wait it out. There are people who love you. People who can help.
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You never know which people will affect your life.
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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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Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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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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Happiness is seasonal, like anything else
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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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In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.
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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
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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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We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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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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The struggle is what teaches you.
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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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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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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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