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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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Poise and indifference so often look the same.
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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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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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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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What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?
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The struggle is what teaches you.
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Happiness is seasonal, like anything else
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I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.
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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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My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
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Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.
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I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
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If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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People talk about dysfunctional families I've never seen any other kind.
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any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short 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. 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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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
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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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