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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.

Sue Grafton

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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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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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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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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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The struggle is what teaches you.
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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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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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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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