Marge Piercy Quotes

I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.

Marge Piercy

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• I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.

  

  Marge Piercy
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  • Past