{"author":"Grace Paley","author_id":"Grace+Paley","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Grace Paley","tags":["creativity","education","learning"],"id":783,"author_id":"Grace+Paley"},{"text":"There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.","author":"Grace Paley","tags":["writing"],"id":34163,"author_id":"Grace+Paley"},{"text":"All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest  it seems  is an interest in life  good  bad or peculiar.","author":"Grace Paley","tags":["medicine","sickness"],"id":81941,"author_id":"Grace+Paley"},{"text":"The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.","author":"Grace Paley","tags":["life","career","professional "],"id":93970,"author_id":"Grace+Paley"},{"text":"Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.","author":"Grace Paley","tags":["writing"],"id":120789,"author_id":"Grace+Paley"},{"text":"I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.","author":"Grace Paley","tags":["helping","people"],"id":142773,"author_id":"Grace+Paley"},{"text":"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.","author":"Grace Paley","tags":["peace","power","united-states","war"],"id":165540,"author_id":"Grace+Paley"},{"text":"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.","author":"Grace Paley","tags":["language","morality","uncertainty"],"id":182652,"author_id":"Grace+Paley"},{"text":"My daughter has pointed out that there were not enough lovejobs to go around in this new world. In any event, I probably learned tolerance, maybe even literary affection for the person in the wrong historical moment, living such long, never to be mediate wars with other sufferers.","author":"Grace Paley","tags":["feminism","life","love"],"id":188107,"author_id":"Grace+Paley"},{"text":"All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest  it seems  is an interest in life  good  bad  or peculiar.","author":"Grace Paley","tags":["events"],"id":234205,"author_id":"Grace+Paley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}