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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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My mother went to demonstrations. I remember her going to a big demonstration for Earl Brower and she came home crying and said the Communists were very mean and booed their people. I remember feeling sad at her feeling sad.
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I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful.
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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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In the park I met other women and I started to get interested in their lives. I developed a lot of pressure to talk about women's lives, and children's lives, too. Children interest me tremendously.
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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 liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.
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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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In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
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I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their eyes closed the cane they're tapping is money, and that won't take them in the right direction.
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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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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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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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My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.
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I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.
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To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.
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You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
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Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.
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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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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 was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
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