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Thank God for the head. Inside the head is the only place you got to be young when the usual place gets used up.
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What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.
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It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.
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With a few grasping, kind words and a modern gimmick, she hoped to breathe eternity into a mortal matter, love.
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You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.
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There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.
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I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing.... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work.
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I thank you, Papa, for your kindness. It is true about me to this day. I am foolish but I am not a fool.
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[He] had invented a pinball machine. When we saw it, we said, George! This is not a pinball machine alone. This is the poem of a pinball machine, the essence made delicately concrete, and so forth.
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Grace Paley
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Born:
December 11, 1922
Died:
August 22, 2007
(aged 84)
Bio:
Grace Paley was an American short story writer, poet, teacher, and political activist.
Known for:
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974)
The Collected Stories (1994)
The little disturbances of man (1959)
Later the Same Day (1985)
Long walks and intimate talks (1991)
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