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There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Superiors
Ones
Ways
Given
Live
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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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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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If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.
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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
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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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