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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
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The Bronx
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I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.
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I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.
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I didn't intend. The word intend is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and you can't not do. If you want to do it, and you don't intend to, you do it anyway. The word intend is wrong. The word pressure is right. It's like any art form.
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To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.
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I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.
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The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
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I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.
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I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
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Art's too long and life's too short.
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What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.
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In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
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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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