Quotes of Grace Paley - somelinesforyou

“ ... plot, the absolute line between two points which I've always despised. Not for literary reasons, but because it takes all hope away. Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life. ”

- Grace Paley

“ The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having loved a person. A man, in my case. It could be a woman, but whatever. I think, what I always tell kids when they get out of class and ask, 'What should I do now?' I always say, 'Keep a low overhead. You're not going to make a lot of money.' And the next thing I say: 'Don't live with a person who doesn't respect your work.' That's the most important thing—that's more important than the money thing. I think those two things are very valuable pieces of information. ”

- Grace Paley

“ There is a long time in me between knowing and telling. ”

- Grace Paley

“ Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write. ”

- Grace Paley

“ I finally understood that I didn’t lack pen and paper but my own memorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, called rote learning, oldfashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking, a great human gift disowned. ”

- Grace Paley

“ I finally understood that I didn’t lack pen and paper but my own memorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, called rote learning, oldfashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking, a great human gift disowned. ”

- Grace Paley

“ I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. ”

- Grace Paley

“ All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar. ”

- Grace Paley

“ The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life. ”

- Grace Paley

“ I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. ”

- Grace Paley

“ The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life. ”

- Grace Paley

“ I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. ”

- Grace Paley

“ I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander. ”

- Grace Paley

“ I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. ”

- Grace Paley

“ I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. ”

- Grace Paley

“ All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar. ”

- Grace Paley

“ Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. ”

- Grace Paley

“ All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar. ”

- Grace Paley

“ Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. ”

- Grace Paley

“ All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar. ”

- Grace Paley

“ I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. ”

- Grace Paley

“ All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar. ”

- Grace Paley

“ I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. ”

- Grace Paley

“ I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander. ”

- Grace Paley

“ All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar. ”

- Grace Paley

“ I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. ”

- Grace Paley

“ Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. ”

- Grace Paley

“ I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander. ”

- Grace Paley

“ Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. ”

- Grace Paley

“ I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. ”

- Grace Paley
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