Grace Paley Quotes

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

Person, Senses, Educate

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
Grace Paley

Life, Good, Bad

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.
Grace Paley

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
Grace Paley

Courage, Fear, Rage

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

Ideas, Early, Fidelity

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

Mind, Until, Student

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
Grace Paley

Worse, Gray, Gloomy

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
Grace Paley

Life, Business, Career

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
Grace Paley

Nothing, Become, Else

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 11, 1922

Died: August 22, 2007

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