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In 1959 it was absolutely insane for Ken McCormick to say, yes, he was going to publish a book of short stories. Now everybody in the writing world is reading and writing short stories.

— Grace Paley with The Paris Review (1992)

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

The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)

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

The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)

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.

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974)

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

Midrash on happiness (1990)

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.

The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)

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