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Grace Paley on Friendship

Browse 1 quotations attributed to Grace Paley, catalogued under friendship, with dates where available.

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Attributed to Grace Paley, entry #85058: "We made for him a great dinner of honor. At this dinner I said to him, for the last time, I thought, "Goodbye, dear friend, topic of my life, now we part." And to myself I said fu…"

1 Quotes by Grace Paley on Friendship

"We made for him a great dinner of honor. At this dinner I said to him, for the last time, I thought, "Goodbye, dear friend, topic of my life, now we part." And to myself I said further: Finished. This is your lonesome bed. A lady what they call fat and fifty. You made it personally. From this lonesome bed you will finally fall to a bed not so lonesome, only crowded with a million bones."

— Grace Paley

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