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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.

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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
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Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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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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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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There are days when none of us can bear it, but the good comes around again. Happiness is seasonal, like anything else. Wait it out. There are people who love you. People who can help.
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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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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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I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether the work is going well or I'm stuck in the hell of writer's block, which I'm happy to report only occurs about once a day.
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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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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
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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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That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
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For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance
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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
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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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After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
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If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
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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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In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.
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I only get writer's block about once a day.
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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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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
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