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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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Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle
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My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.
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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
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The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.
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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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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.
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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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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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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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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
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It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
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Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
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Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.
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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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Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.
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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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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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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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