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Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
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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Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
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People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.
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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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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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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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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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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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The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.
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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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That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
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What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?
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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
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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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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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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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