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Grace Paley quotes about life

American Writer December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007

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Edie didn't budge. She leaned her chin on her knees and felt sad. She was a big reader too, but she liked THE BOBBSEY TWINS or HONEY BUNCH AT THE SEASHORE. She loved that nice family life. She tried to live it in the three rooms on the fourth floor. Sometimes she called her father Dad, or even Father, which surprised him. Who? he asked. Grace Paley
Grace Paley quote: "All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it..."
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. Grace Paley
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
Grace Paley quote: "The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides..."
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life. Grace Paley
Grace Paley quote: "Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life."
Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life. Grace Paley
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. Grace Paley

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