Grace Paley Quote

We made for him a great dinner of honor. At this dinner I said to him, for the last time, I thought, "Goodbye, dear friend, topic of my life, now we part." And to myself I said further: Finished. This is your lonesome bed. A lady what they call fat and fifty. You made it personally. From this lonesome bed you will finally fall to a bed not so lonesome, only crowded with a million bones.


"Goodbye and Good Luck" (1959)


We made for him a great dinner of honor. At this dinner I said to him, for the last time, I thought, Goodbye, dear friend, topic of my life, now we...

We made for him a great dinner of honor. At this dinner I said to him, for the last time, I thought, Goodbye, dear friend, topic of my life, now we...

We made for him a great dinner of honor. At this dinner I said to him, for the last time, I thought, Goodbye, dear friend, topic of my life, now we...

We made for him a great dinner of honor. At this dinner I said to him, for the last time, I thought, Goodbye, dear friend, topic of my life, now we...