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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
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The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.
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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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