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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.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Looking
Eye
Makes
Limbs
Feel
Mouth
Feels
Mouths
Heart
Laugh
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Eyes

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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.
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No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.
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