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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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Skibbereen have a hard time at [math] the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.
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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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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 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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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
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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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No one is exempt from grief.
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No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.
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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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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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Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.
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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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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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...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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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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Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense
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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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Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
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I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.
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