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• Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.

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  Dream, Honey, Know Yourself

  Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.9, Macmillan

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• If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.

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  New York, Talking, Cities

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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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  Writing, Numbers, Omission

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• 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.

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  Real, Writing, Vocabulary

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

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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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  Writing, Should Have, Done

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• A joke is necessary at this time.

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  Jokes

  Grace Paley, Robert Nichols (2007). “Here and Somewhere Else”, Feminist Press

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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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  Couple, Kids, Writing

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• I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I wanted to do and could do with children and with all the other things in my life.

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  Children, Couple, Story Writers

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• I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

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  Numbers, Poet, Joyce

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• I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

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  Writing, Past, Fiction

  Grace Paley, Gerhard Bach, Blaine H. Hall (1997). “Conversations with Grace Paley”, p.7, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

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  Apparitions

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• I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.

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  Writing, Four, Lines

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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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  Writing, People, Trying

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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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  Writing, Movement, Knows

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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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  Mother, Home, Mean

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

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  Mind, Students, Fantasy

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

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  Education, Philosophy, Believe

  Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.185, Macmillan

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• Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.

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  Goodman

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• It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.

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  Young, Terrible, Stills

  Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.275, Macmillan

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• No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

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  Jobs, Children, Metaphor

  Grace Paley (2014). “Begin Again: Collected Poems”, p.4, Macmillan

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