Best Quotes by Grace Paley (Top 10)
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Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
Grace Paley
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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"ツ杯hat's more important than the money thing. I think those two things are very valuable pieces of information.
Grace Paley
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Write what will stop your breath if you don't write.
Grace Paley
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The only recognizable feature of hope is action.
Grace Paley
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All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
Grace Paley
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Women should stick together. Didn't you learn anything yet?
Grace Paley
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"ツヲ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
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I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
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The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
Grace Paley
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I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
Grace Paley