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Gregory Maguire Inspirational Quotes (133)

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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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I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.
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I learned to fly on a broom, he said, rolling up his sleeves. I can learn to milk a goat, I bet. Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.
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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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I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.
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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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She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
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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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Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.
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I learned failure early and mastered it.
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There may be no city in the clouds, but dreaming of it can enliven the spirit.
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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 do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.
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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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To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.
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Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.
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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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So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
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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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I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
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If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
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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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