I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short … - Grace Paley

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[John Adams] experience with the French philosophers only convinced him further of the need for a bicameral legislature representing the two principal social orders and, equally important, an independent executive.

Grace Paley

I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I wanted to do and could do with children and with all the other things in my life.

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

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Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

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Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

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Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

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