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Paulette Bates Alden
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“He talks for the pleasure of his own voice, the way dogs bark and birds sing.”
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“... her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.”
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“Miriam has never been good at leaps. She was always the kid who had to back down the ladder of the high dive.”
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“Writing the short story is essentially an act of grace. It's not a matter of will so much as trust. I try to let the story do some of the work for me. It knows what it wants to do, say, be. I try not to stand in its way.”
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“Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning.”
Paulette Bates Alden, U.S. writer
(1947)