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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.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
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Hope
Lost
Whole
Giving
Time
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She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.
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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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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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It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.
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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle
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