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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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Albany
New York
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Rain
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No one is exempt from grief.
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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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Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
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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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Skibbereen have a hard time at [math] the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.
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Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.
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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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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.
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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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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
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When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.
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The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.
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If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
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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.
Gregory Maguire
There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors
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It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.
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