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I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

Grace Paley

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Grace Paley
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 11
Died: 2007
Died: August 21
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That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.
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My mother went to demonstrations. I remember her going to a big demonstration for Earl Brower and she came home crying and said the Communists were very mean and booed their people. I remember feeling sad at her feeling sad.
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When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it's different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize.
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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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I write for the still, small possibility of justice.
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I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
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