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The struggle is what teaches you.

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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Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
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Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)
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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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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
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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 never know which people will affect your life.
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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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There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
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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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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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any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.
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Poise and indifference so often look the same.
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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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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 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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Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
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I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.
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