Grace Paley

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

— Grace Paley

#change

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

#itself #often #right #see #things

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

— Grace Paley

#fear #forth #go #let us #rage

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

#career #divides #divisive #life #normal

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

— Grace Paley

#become #else #need #nothing #writer

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

— Grace Paley

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