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It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.
Grace Paley
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Grace Paley
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 11
Died: 2007
Died: August 21
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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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I write for the still, small possibility of justice.
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The only recognizable feature of hope is action.
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I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.
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If you want to do things, do things.
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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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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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I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
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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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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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I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.
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