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Category: Grace Paley

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

Courage, World, Rage

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

Life, Beauty, End

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

Life, Career, Professional

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

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

medicine, sickness

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

helping, people

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

My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster’s or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.

language, morality, uncertainty

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

poems, poetry, relatable, wisdom, writers, writing

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

writing, writing-advice, writing-life, writing-quotes

Remembering is organized for significance (not usefulness)

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.

peace, power, united-states, war