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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Mines
Mine
People
Everywhere

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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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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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She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
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I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.
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