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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
History
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Retiring
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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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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To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows
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... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.
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Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
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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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She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.
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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.
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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
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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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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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