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Art's too long and life's too short.
— Grace Paley
That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.
— Grace Paley
He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself.
— William S. Paley
Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.
— Grace Paley
I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.
— Grace Paley
If you want to do things, do things.
— Grace Paley
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
— Grace Paley
(Interested in being a better writer? Go buy yourself a copy of The Collected Stories by Grace Paley.) The
— Ann Patchett
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
Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.
— Grace Paley
I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.
— Babe Paley
Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.
— Jonathan Richman
Television, I would say,isn't an advertising medium.
It's a selling medium. — William S. Paley
Who cares?' said Judy, who didn't care.
— Grace Paley
Who can refute a sneer?
— William Paley
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
Monumental is not a matter of size.
— Albert Paley
Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.
— Grace Paley
White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.
— William S. Paley
We write about what we don't know about what we know ...
— Grace Paley
I write for the still, small possibility of justice.
— Grace Paley
The men don't like their wives so much. They only get married if it's a good idea." Faith
— Grace Paley
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
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
— Grace Paley
A joke is necessary at this time.
— Grace Paley
Write what will stop your breath if you don't write.
— Grace Paley
Poets take themselves very seriously.
— Grace Paley
The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence.
— Edward Graham Paley
Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.
— Grace Paley
In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.
— William S. Paley
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
Let her live in the air,' said Peter. 'I bet you do. Let her love her body.''Let her,' said Anna sadly. — Grace Paley
Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.
— Grace Paley
Write from what you know into what you don't know.
— Grace Paley
I'm still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining.
— Babe Paley
For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.
— Grace Paley
The only recognizable feature of hope is action.
— Grace Paley
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
Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement.
— Babe Paley
There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.
— William Paley
I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
— Grace Paley
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
— Grace Paley
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.
— Grace Paley
I begin by writing paragraphs that don't have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.
— Grace Paley
There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.
— Grace Paley
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
— William S. Paley
Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.
— Grace Paley
The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
— Babe Paley
The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.
— Grace Paley
Art is too long, and life is too short,
— Grace Paley