Sue Grafton Quotes
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I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.
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Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.
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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…
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My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I didn't know how…
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If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
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I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've…
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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,…
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Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.
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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…
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Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there,
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I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box…
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Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
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There are laws for everything except the harm families do.
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People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.
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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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Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
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Give yourself time to get better.
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Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.
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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…
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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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