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I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

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

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

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A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.

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I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

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I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

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

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You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

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Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.

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

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That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.

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I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me.

Grace Paley

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

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Poets take themselves very seriously.

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

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I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.

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

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You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

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What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

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