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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

Gregory Maguire

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Ancestor
Rather
Would
Monk

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I hate to be obvious, added the Scarecrow, but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.
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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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I learned to fly on a broom, he said, rolling up his sleeves. I can learn to milk a goat, I bet. Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.
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Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.
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