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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
Novelist
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Albany
New York
Classical
Centuries
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Late
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Bach
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.
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Happy endings are still endings.
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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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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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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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