Top 15 Grace Paley Quotes



There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

 

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

 

I finally understood that I didn’t lack pen and paper but my ownmemorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, calledrote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking,a great human gift disowned.

 

We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.

 

Remembering is organized for significance (not usefulness)

 

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

 

The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese.

 

‏Don’t live with a lover or roommate who doesn’t respect your work.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.

 

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

 

 

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