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I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

Grace Paley

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Grace Paley
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 11
Died: 2007
Died: August 21
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The Bronx
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Fads

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