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“Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.”

Quote by Grace Paley

Book:A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry

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A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry

This compilation includes a diverse array of works by Grace Paley, a renowned American writer known for her poignant storytelling and insightful reflections on the complexities of everyday life. The stories, essays, and poetry within this reader offer a glimpse into the author's unique perspective on family dynamics, community relationships, and the human condition. more

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Grace Paley was an American writer born on December 11, 1922, and passed away on August 22, 2007. Known for her concise language and profound emotional depth, her works primarily focus on family, love, and social issues. more

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“If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.”

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Book:Just As I Thought

Source: Just As I Thought

“Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.”

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Author:Grace Paley

“For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.”

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“You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.”

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Book:The Collected Stories

Source: The Collected Stories

“Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and a great deal of pleasure there. There are friends, some of whom are sick and needful of you, as you will be of them someday. The world itself is very beautiful. It's a place where you have a lot to do. But you have to do it knowing that sometimes you will be afraid of this new country.”

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Author:Grace Paley

“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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“Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.”

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Author:Grace Paley

“I write for the still, small possibility of justice.”

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Author:Grace Paley

“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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Book:Conversations with Grace Paley

Source: Conversations with Grace Paley

“Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you haven't. You have learned how to write that story, or that book, but you haven't learned how to write the next one.”

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Author:Grace Paley