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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
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Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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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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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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Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.
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There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was Edward Gorey who wrote the book The Gashlycrumb Tinies, about the untimely death of 26 Victorian children, each representing a letter of the alphabet. I thought what a great way to link the titles.
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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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After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
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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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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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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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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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My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.
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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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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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That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
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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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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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any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.
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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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People talk about dysfunctional families I've never seen any other kind.
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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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