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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.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Determined
Languages
Modalities
Private
Symbol
Shrieks
Elements
Obscure
Quixotic
Meaning
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Arcane
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Juxtaposition
Every
Rarely
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World
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Imagery

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