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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.
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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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His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.
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There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors
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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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My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.
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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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Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
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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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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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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
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