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As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.
Grace Paley
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Grace Paley
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 11
Died: 2007
Died: August 21
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I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.
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In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
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Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.
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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.
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I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.
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If you want to do things, do things.
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No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.
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