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It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it, doing our best to say the proper lines and make the proper moves, but not quite comfortable yet in the parts we've been given. Still, like players who trust that -despite all evidence to the contrary- the whole mess will make sense eventually, we keep on going, hoping that somehow things will work out for the best.

Gary Blackwood

You imagine that there's no use struggling against fate, that she will always have her way, no matter what we do. But don't you see? It's our very efforts to cheat fate, or to change it, that make things come to pass in the way they were meant to.

Gary Blackwood

Gary Blackwood

Gary Blackwood

Born: October 23, 1945 (age 80)

Bio: Gary Blackwood is an American author known for The Shakespeare Stealer trilogy. Born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, Blackwood sold his first story when he was nineteen.

Known for:

The Shakespeare Stealer (1998)
Shakespeare's Scribe (2000)
The Year of the Hangman (2002)
Shakespeare's Spy (2005)
Around the World in 100 Days (2010)

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