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You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.

Sue Grafton

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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
Hate
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Even
People
Indifferent
Rage
Kill

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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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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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It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.
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All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit.
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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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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
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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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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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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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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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People talk about dysfunctional families I've never seen any other kind.
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You never know which people will affect your life.
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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.
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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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