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Grace Paley Inspirational Quotes (59)

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It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in it and trees and water. Just learning about water is an education for a city person.
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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.
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In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
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There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.
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To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.
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A joke is necessary at this time.
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Art's too long and life's too short.
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To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.
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I know I've done good work. I've been very serious about my writing, and I've done the best that I could. But I don't feel that I've done more than I should have. In fact, I've done less than I should have.
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If you want to do things, do things.
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Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
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