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My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.
Sue Grafton
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Sue Grafton
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: April 24
Died: 2017
Died: December 28
Actor
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Journalist
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Louisville
Kentucky
Sue Taylor Grafton
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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 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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If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
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If you're unhappy, change something.
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You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
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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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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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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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A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.
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Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.
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Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
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Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
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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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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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The struggle is what teaches you.
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