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Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
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Destiny
Written
Stars
Others
Remember
Nothing

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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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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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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
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He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.
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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
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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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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
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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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It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.
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