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To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.
Grace Paley
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Grace Paley
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 11
Died: 2007
Died: August 21
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In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.
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I write for the still, small possibility of justice.
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I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.
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