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Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
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Albany
New York
Unnamed
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Remains
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Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.
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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
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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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The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.
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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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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it.
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I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.
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The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.
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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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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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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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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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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
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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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...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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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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Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things but on the edge of things, we notice much.
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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.
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