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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
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Monk
Ancestor
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... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.
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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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How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
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As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
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Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.
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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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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.
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I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.
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