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Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Heart
Memory
Builds
Work
Hearts
Reminds
Inside
Spirits
Memories
Candle
Present
Muscles
Spirit
Bodies
Part
Bones
Knits
Body
Keeps
Pumping

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Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity
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No one is exempt from grief.
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When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.
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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
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My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.
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I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
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If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
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Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things but on the edge of things, we notice much.
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Skibbereen have a hard time at [math] the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.
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I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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Are you the dart? he said. Are you the knife? The fuse? She said (though he wasn't convinced): My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad.
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.
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I learned to fly on a broom, he said, rolling up his sleeves. I can learn to milk a goat, I bet. Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.
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