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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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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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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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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 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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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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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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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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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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The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.
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Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.
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My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
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