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

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
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Happenings
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History
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Retiring
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She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.
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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.
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The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.
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I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.
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If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.
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Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?
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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
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Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not the whole point of conversations was flow.
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.
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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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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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I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
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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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His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.
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When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.
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