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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.

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
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Anyone
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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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Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
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There's really no such thing as an 'ex-cop' or a cop who's 'off-duty' or 'retired.' Once trained, once indoctrinated, a cop is always alert, assessing reality in terms of its potential for illegal acts.
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Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.
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Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
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I only get writer's block about once a day.
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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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That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
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I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result. I don't think you write one book and get anywhere. I think you write five books and then maybe you are finally on the right path.
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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
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People talk about dysfunctional families I've never seen any other kind.
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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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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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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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If you're unhappy, change something.
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Give yourself time to get better.
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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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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
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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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