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From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Gregory Maguire

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

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That's all I want- to do no harm.
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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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Notice, notice let noticing take the place of screaming.
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So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
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Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.
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In the end, all disguises must drop.
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She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
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It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?
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The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.
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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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There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.
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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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It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.
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To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
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