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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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It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.
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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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It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in it and trees and water. Just learning about water is an education for a city person.
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You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
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You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.
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