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I thank you, Papa, for your kindness. It is true about me to this day. I am foolish but I am not a fool.

— Grace Paley The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)

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With a few grasping, kind words and a modern gimmick, she hoped to breathe eternity into a mortal matter, love.

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I brought up lonesomeness again, and not being understood at all except by some women everybody hated.

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Plot, the absolute line between two points which I've always despised. Not for literary reasons, but because it takes all hope away. Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

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For happiness, she also required work to do in this world and bread on the table.

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It is still hard to believe that a man who sends out the Ten Commandments every year for a Christmas card can be so easy buttoning and unbuttoning.

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