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Grace Paley
American
Writer
About the author
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
Grace Paley,
American
Writer
#World
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
Grace Paley,
American
Writer
#Life
#Career
#Word
#Business
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
Grace Paley,
American
Writer
#Fear
#World
#Courage
I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
Grace Paley,
American
Writer
#Mind
I often see through things right to the apparition itself.
Grace Paley,
American
Writer
#Right
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
Grace Paley,
American
Writer
#Civilization
#Senses
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
Grace Paley,
American
Writer
#Ideas
#Fidelity
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
Grace Paley,
American
Writer
#Life
#Interest
#Survival
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
Grace Paley,
American
Writer
#Nothing
#Writer