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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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Grace Paley
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 11
Died: 2007
Died: August 21
Activist
Teacher
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Philosophy
Education
Body
Persons
Soma
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Believe
Senses
Medicine
Civilization

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In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
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When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it's different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize.
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We write about what we don't know about what we know.
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When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.
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Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.
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I write for the still, small possibility of justice.
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Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
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It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.
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Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.
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I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
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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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Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.
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Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe the Chinese said it too.
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My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.
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