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Grace Paley

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There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.


— Grace Paley


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All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.


— Grace Paley


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I often see through things right to the apparition itself.


— Grace Paley


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Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.


— Grace Paley


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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


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I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.


— Grace Paley


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Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.


— Grace Paley


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The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.


— Grace Paley


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You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.


— Grace Paley


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I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.


— Grace Paley


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The family spoke Russian and Yiddish along with English. She taught at Sarah Lawrence College. The collection features eleven stories of New York life several of which have since been widely anthologized particularly "Goodbye and Good Luck" and "The Used-Boy Raisers.

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