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No one is exempt from grief.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Exempt
Bereavement
Sadness
Grief

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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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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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And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
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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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He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.
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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.
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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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