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

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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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Two
Moralist
Magician
Supply
Species
Mystery
Short

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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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In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.
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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 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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The struggle is what teaches you.
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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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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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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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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Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.
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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. I don't believe in ghosts, I said, faintly. Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there, she replied.
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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
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Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.
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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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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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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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Happiness is seasonal, like anything else
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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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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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