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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
Body
Keeps
Pumping
Heart
Memory
Builds
Work
Hearts
Reminds
Inside
Spirits
Memories
Candle
Present
Muscles
Spirit
Bodies
Part
Bones
Knits

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What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
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How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
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Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.
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...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.
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All our lives are activity without meaning we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy.
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If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.
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Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.
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... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.
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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.
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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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Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.
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Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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