Grace PaleyThere is a long time in me between knowing and telling.
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There is always a long time in between ‘knowing’ something and ‘telling’ it. There are two sides to every experience, the knowing of it and the telling of it. The knowing is catching your experience, but before you can do that you have to get the story imagined. You have to get it into your head, get the pictures in your mind. You’ve got to do some thinking before you can say anything.
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