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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
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Albany
New York
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To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows
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She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.
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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
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Even God used silence as a strategy.
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But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.
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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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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.
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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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Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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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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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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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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...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
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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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The world was floods above and fire below
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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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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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