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If you're old and you're healthy and you're active - I don't mean you have to be politically active - if you remain interested in other people and the world, then you live as well as your health will allow.
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 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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That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.
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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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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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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 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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The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
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I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.
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For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.
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As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.
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To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.
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Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
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Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.
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No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.
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It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.
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I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
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Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
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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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Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.
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