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I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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Albany
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Are you the dart? he said. Are you the knife? The fuse? She said (though he wasn't convinced): My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad.
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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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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.
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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
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I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.
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The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
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It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.
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Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.
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...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
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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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[Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner! What? She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER! Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.
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No one is exempt from grief.
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