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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.

Sue Grafton

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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
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Kentucky
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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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The struggle is what teaches you.
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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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Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.
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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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That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
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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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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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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?
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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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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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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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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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Poise and indifference so often look the same.
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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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