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That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.

Grace Paley

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Grace Paley
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 11
Died: 2007
Died: August 21
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What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.
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I write for the still, small possibility of justice.
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The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
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I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
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I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.
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I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.
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When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.
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If you want to do things, do things.
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You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
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In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
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I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.
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Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.
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