Grace Paley Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Just when I most needed important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could translate my friendly language into his tongue of undying carnal love, I was forced to lounge in our neighborhood park, surrounded by children.

  Grace Paley

  Children, Women, Important

  Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.175, Macmillan

• My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.

  Grace Paley

  Real, Writing, Vocabulary

  Grace Paley (2014). “Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories”, p.85, Macmillan

• Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.

  Grace Paley

  People, Interesting, Energy

• Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.

  Grace Paley

  People, Language, Sometimes

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