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Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.
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 don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.
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It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.
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A joke is necessary at this time.
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I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work.
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I write for the still, small possibility of justice.
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Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.
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Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
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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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