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Grace Paley quotes about world

American Writer December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007

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it is possible with only a little extra anguish to live in this world at absolute [minimum?] loving brainy sexual energetic redeemed Grace Paley
Here I am in the garden laughingan old woman with heavy breastsand a nicely mapped facehow did this happenwell that's who I wanted to beat last a womanin the old style sittingstout thighs apart undera big skirt grandchild slidingon off my lap a pleasantsummer perspirationthat's my old man across the yardhe's talking to the meter readerhe's telling him the world's sad storyhow electricity is oil or uraniumand so forth I tell my grandsonrun over to your grandpa ask himto sit beside me for a... Grace Paley
At this very moment, the thumb of Ricardo's hovering shadow jabbed her in her left eye, revealing for all the world the shallowness of her water table. Rice could have been planted at that instant on the terraces of her flesh and sprouted in strength and beauty in the floods that overwhelmed her from that moment on through all the afternoon. Grace Paley
…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story. Grace Paley
Grace Paley quote: "Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world."
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. Grace Paley
Grace Paley quote: "Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when..."
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. Grace Paley

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