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Grace Paley quotes: Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life. Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
Grace Paley quotes: Art's too long and life's too short. Art's too long and life's too short.
Grace Paley quotes: As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it. As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.
Grace Paley quotes: That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality. That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.
Grace Paley quotes: You write from what you know but you write into what you don't know. You write from what you know but you write into what you don't know.
Grace Paley quotes: Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen. Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.
Grace Paley quotes: I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices. I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.
Grace Paley quotes: You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something. You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.
Grace Paley quotes: Whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream. Whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.
Grace Paley quotes: If you want to do things, do things. If you want to do things, do things.
Grace Paley quotes: All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
Grace Paley quotes: I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander. I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
Grace Paley quotes: Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time. Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.
Grace Paley quotes: Write what will stop your breath if you don't write. Write what will stop your breath if you don't write.
Grace Paley quotes: Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in. Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.
Grace Paley quotes: What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class. What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.
Grace Paley quotes: Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible. Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.
Grace Paley quotes: Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog. Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.
Grace Paley quotes: No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock. No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.
Grace Paley quotes: You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it ... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing. You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it ... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.
Grace Paley quotes: Who cares?' said Judy, who didn't care. Who cares?' said Judy, who didn't care.
Grace Paley quotes: There is a long time in me between knowing and telling. There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.
Grace Paley quotes: I often see through things right to the apparition itself. I often see through things right to the apparition itself.
Grace Paley quotes: You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else. You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
Grace Paley quotes: Poets take themselves very seriously. Poets take themselves very seriously.
Grace Paley quotes: The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life. The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
Grace Paley quotes: A joke is necessary at this time. A joke is necessary at this time.
Grace Paley quotes: The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write. The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
Grace Paley quotes: I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong. I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.
Grace Paley quotes: The men don't like their wives so much. They only get married if it's a good idea." Faith The men don't like their wives so much. They only get married if it's a good idea." Faith
Grace Paley quotes: I write for the still, small possibility of justice. I write for the still, small possibility of justice.
Grace Paley quotes: We write about what we don't know about what we know ... We write about what we don't know about what we know ...
Grace Paley quotes: In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty. In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
Grace Paley quotes: Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world. Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.
Grace Paley quotes: I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature. I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.
Grace Paley quotes: Women should stick together. Didn't you learn anything yet? Women should stick together. Didn't you learn anything yet?
Grace Paley quotes: It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time. It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.
Grace Paley quotes: For me, the meaning of life is the next generation. For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.
Grace Paley quotes: It is possible with only a little extra anguish to live in this world at absolute [minimum?] loving brainy sexual energetic redeemed It is possible with only a little extra anguish
to live in this world at absolute [minimum?]
loving brainy sexual energetic redeemed
Grace Paley quotes: I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven. I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.
Grace Paley quotes: Write from what you know into what you don't know. Write from what you know into what you don't know.
Grace Paley quotes: Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others. Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.
Grace Paley quotes: Remembering is organized for significance (not usefulness) Remembering is organized for significance (not usefulness)
Grace Paley quotes: Let her live in the air,' said Peter. 'I bet you do. Let her love her body.''Let her,' said Anna sadly. Let her live in the air,' said Peter. 'I bet you do. Let her love her body.'
'Let her,' said Anna sadly.
Grace Paley quotes: I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
Grace Paley quotes: Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
Grace Paley quotes: Art is too long, and life is too short, Art is too long, and life is too short,
Grace Paley quotes: The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story. The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.
Grace Paley quotes: Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts. Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.
Grace Paley quotes: I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty. I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
Grace Paley quotes: Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language. Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.
Grace Paley quotes: I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce. I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.
Grace Paley quotes: People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics. People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.
Grace Paley quotes: To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night. To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.
Grace Paley quotes: I begin by writing paragraphs that don't have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. I begin by writing paragraphs that don't have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.
Grace Paley quotes: I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
Grace Paley quotes: Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
Grace Paley quotes: The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese. The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese.
Grace Paley quotes: If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner. If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.
Grace Paley quotes: My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.
Grace Paley quotes: You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing. You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.
Grace Paley quotes: The only recognizable feature of hope is action. The only recognizable feature of hope is action.

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