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

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Way
Superiors
Ones
Ways
Given
Live

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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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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.
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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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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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...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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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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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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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.
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When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
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Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.
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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.
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Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.
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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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