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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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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
Writing
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Destination
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Journey
Gives
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Soul
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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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God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.
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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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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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After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
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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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In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.
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You never know which people will affect your life.
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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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The struggle is what teaches you.
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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 high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
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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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Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.
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My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.
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Happiness is seasonal, like anything else
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People talk about dysfunctional families I've never seen any other kind.
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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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Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.
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