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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Men
Skyscrapers
Skyscraper
Wings
Grew

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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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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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If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
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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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Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
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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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I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.
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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
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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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She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.
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You confuse not speaking with not listening.
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The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
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