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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?
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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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Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense
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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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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
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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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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
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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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To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
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Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.
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