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

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Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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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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I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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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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Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.
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Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
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But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.
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That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.
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...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
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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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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.
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I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.
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